PLS ANSWER ASAP I WILL MARK BRAINLIEST The passage below is from Thomas Paine’s 1776 pamphlet, Common Sense.

"As to government matters, it is not in the power of Britain to do this continent justice: The business of it will soon be too weighty, and intricate, to be managed with any tolerable degree of convenience, by a power, so distant from us, and so very ignorant of us; for if they cannot conquer us, they cannot govern us. To be always running three or four thousand miles with a tale or a petition, waiting four or five months for an answer, which when obtained requires five or six more to explain it in, will in a few years be looked upon as folly and childishness — There was a time when it was proper, and there is a proper time for it to cease."

Which statement summarizes Paine’s argument in this passage?Immersive Reader

A distant government cannot protect individual rights.

Self-government is a natural right that belongs to all peoples.

The British do not know enough about the colonies to govern them.

The British have benefited enough from their investment in the colonies.

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