What practical reasons does Thomas Paine give for American Independence? ?

Question

What practical reasons does Thomas Paine give for American Independence? ?

Answer 1

The king had proven that he could not be trusted.

Answer 2

It's just "Common Sense" - basically the Brits wouldn't have liked being under the thumb of the man thousands of miles away, so it is common sense that it is against human nature.  Read his stuff!

Answer 3

- It was ridiculous for a island to rule a continent.

- America was not a " British Nation ", it was made up of influences and peoples from all of Europe.

- Being a part of Britain would drag America into unnecessary European wars, and keep it from the international commerce at which America excelled.

- The distance between the two nations made governing the colonies from England unwieldy, if some wrong was to be petitioned to Parliament, it would take a year before the colonies received a response.

- Britain ruled the colonies for her own benefit, and did not consider the best interests of the colonists in governing them.

- Even if Britain was the " mother country " of America, that made her actions all the more horrendous, for no mother would harm her children so brutally.