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Which author did not just have Common Sense, he wrote about it?

Retry Correct Incorrect Political activist, and theorist Thomas Paine, wrote Common Sense, which advocated the colonies’ independence from Great Britain’s rule. Paine was a major contributor to the American and French revolutions.

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Which author did not just have Common Sense, he wrote about it?

• Edgar Allan Poe
• Ida B
• Daniel Defoe
• Thomas Paine