Which statement best describes Thomas Paine's argument In this excerpt from Common Sense? Thave heard it asserted by some, that as Amtica hath flourished under her former connection with Great Britain that the same connection
Is necessary towards her future happiness, and will always have the same effect. Nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argurment.
We may as well assert that because a child has thrived upon milk that It Is never to have meat, or that the first twenty years of our Iives Is to
become a precedent for the next twenty. But even this Is admitting more than is true, for l answer roundly, that America would have
flourished as much, and probably much more, had no European power had any thing to do with her. The commerce, by which she hath
enriched herself, are the necessaries of lIfe, and will always have a market while eating Is the custom of Europe.
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He shows that while America earller flourished because of Britain, it faces a bleak future If British rule continues.
He uses anecdotal evidence to imply that America faces a bleak future if British rule continues.
He refutes the idea thatAmerica depends on Britain, using the opinlon that America's trade has a secure future.
He implles that America's connection to Britain had prevented it from engaging in trade with European countries.
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