THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THOMAS PAINES COMMON SENSE
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“There is nothing positive that will come from staying connected to Great Britain.”
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“Maybe all along the only reason Great Britain cared for us was for HER benefit!”
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“We need to be free NOW before things get any worse. If we wait, it will only be harder.”
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“Some people believe that the colonies have and will always benefit from Great Britain but I couldn’t disagree more with that statement.”
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Detailed explanation-1: -"I challenge the warmest advocate for reconciliation, to show a single advantage that this continent can reap, by being connected with Great Britain. I repeat the challenge; not a single advantage is derived” I challenge anyone wanting us to make peace with England to tell us one good reason why.
Detailed explanation-2: -RECONCILIATION suggests the calm and rational agreement of two grownups, but Paine wants you to view reconciliation as the defeatist choice of spineless subjects who could never take care of themselves. In other words, DEPENDENCE.
Detailed explanation-3: -Absolute governments (tho’ the disgrace of human nature) have this advantage with them, that they are simple; if the people suffer, they know the head from which their suffering springs, know likewise the remedy, and are not bewildered by a variety of causes and cures.
Detailed explanation-4: -In Common Sense, Paine argued that it was absurd for an island to rule a Continent, that America could avoid European conflicts by being free of Great Britain, that London was too far from America to rule it, and that the King and Parliament would inevitably rule for Britains benefit, not Americas.