What Is Common Sense

In America, we operate under certain assumptions. "Common Sense" is one of those....

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• "The First Amendment makes confidence in the Common Sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgment the great postulate of our democracy." - William Orville Douglas.

Common Sense is a uniquely American concept which presumes the verifiable existence of certain fundamental, commonly held, and basic understandings shared by all members of our collective society. Although the American society offers no formal training or classroom instruction in areas of strictly Common Sense, people who lack in having it are often publicly humiliated and relegated to the status of a mere halfwit. These incidents are easily justified by the American population on the grounds that the classroom and study materials are equally available to all.

The classroom is the Earth and everyone's birth is the price of their own admission. Common Sense is readily acquired through a personal and day to day observation of the natural world and the interplay, of our fellow human beings, who are involved in it. Being A: "Learn it, as you go, system," Common Sense even makes allowance for the fact that we all operate at some different levels of perception in this area.... As any Real American can tell you, "It is only Common Sense, that [even] Common Sense should be that way!"