What enlightenment principle is paine arguing in favor of in this excerpt

Right or Wrong I tried my best :P

Here Paine rebuts the first argument for reconciliation- that American has thrived as a British colony and would fail on her own. How does this dismiss this argument?

1. He slams in down!!

2. Argument is beyond misdirected and has errors in reasoning.

3. Paine argues with ideas while convincing with emotion.

it is D. representative government

the answer is c     : )

explanation:

i don't have an explanation because i don't know, but i think the answer is c because i googled it and google is right : ) just kidding google isn't allways right but the answer is still c. i hope this !

keeping a cash reserve because cash flow is the the movement of money through a company and if it just sits there, it wont the movement