The debt of England caused by the French and Indian War of 140,000,000 Pounds sterling is equivalent to about 19,000,000,000 Pounds in 2006. Thomas Paine's pamphlet "Common Sense" is available at https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/comsn10a.txt…
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