Assertion: common sense | /r/HasProperty | read
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text: Given that the population of the colonies in 1776 was only about 2.5 million and that the 40-page pamphlet was famously passed from hand-to-hand and read out loud in parlors, taverns, and village greens throughout the colonies, its fair to argue that Common Sense was read or heard by more than half of the adult population in the colonies, a record that has likely never been equaled.