Tennessee's Free Fishing Day Is Saturday, June 7. Tennesseeâs annual Free Fishing Day is Saturday, June 7 when anyone may fish free without a license in the stateâs public waters. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency provides the free day in hopes of increasing interest in fishing.
At the time Paine wrote âCommon Sense,â most colonists considered themselves to be aggrieved Britons. Paine fundamentally changed the tenor of colonistsâ argument with the crown when he wrote the following: âEurope, and not England, is the parent country of America.
COMMON SENSE was an instant best-seller. Published in January 1776 in Philadelphia, nearly 120,000 copies were in circulation by April. Paine's brilliant arguments were straightforward. He argued for two main points: (1) independence from England and (2) the creation of a democratic republic.