Common Sense (1776) Thomas Paine

question 47

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Common Sense (1776)
Thomas Paine
Every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual. Our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in Kings more than repeated petitioning. . . . Wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for God's sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child.
To say, they will never attempt it again is idle and visionary, we thought so at the repeal of the stamp act, yet a year or two undeceived us; as well may we suppose that nations, which have been once defeated, will never renew the quarrel.
-The values expressed in Thomas Paine's Common Sense reflect

• A) the general position taken by colonial leaders from the time of the French and Indian War.
• B) the sentiments of colonial leaders who felt that Parliament's notions of representation and republicanism were not being applied to them.
• C) the opposition to authority that had been manifested in the Regulator Movement and Paxton March, and later in Shays' Rebellion.
• D) ideas that emerged spontaneously once shots were fired by Great Britain.

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