Response To Thomas Paine

Continuing on, Paine also brings up how Holland had not been living under a Monarch, and were coincidentally one of the best nations in Europe. He continues to talk about the way rulers are set up by inheritance, rather than a democratic election. Paine suggests that men were born unto equal rights, so the fact that some are born into power while others are not given the same opportunity is not fair. Having dispensed with the preliminary theoretical issues, Paine sets in to discuss the details of the American situation. In response to the argument that America has flourished under British rule, and therefore ought to stay under the king, Paine says that such an argument fails to realize that America has evolved and no longer