![]() ![]() ![]() Compliments as well as censure to individuals make no part thereof. In the following sheets, the author hath studiously avoided every thing which is personal among ourselves. As a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question (and in Matters too which might never have been thought of, had not the Sufferers been aggravated into the inquiry) and as the King of England hath undertaken in his OWN RIGHT, to support the Parliament in what he calls THEIRS, and as the good people of this country are grievously oppressed by the combination, they have an undoubted privilege to inquire into the pretensions of both, and equally to reject the usurpation of either. ![]() Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. ![]() His criticisms swept across the North American continent and generated widespread support for American independence. Paine’s pamphlet offered a very different portrayal of the British government. Thomas Paine Calls for American independence, 1776īritons had long understood themselves as the freest people on earth, blessed with a limited monarchy and an enlightened parliament. ![]()
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