What does Paine say the colonists have a right to
do?
o Take time to think about what to do next
0 Open a door to eternal tyranny
O Form a new government
A government of our own is our natural right:
And when a man seriously reflects on the
precariousness of human affairs, he will
become convinced, that it is infinitely wiser
and safer, to form a constitution of our own
in a cool deliberate manner, while we have it
in our power, than to trust such an
interesting event to time and chance... Ye
that oppose independence now, ye know not
what ye do; ye are opening a door to eternal
tyranny, by keeping vacant the seat of
government. There are thousands, and tens of
thousands, who would think it glorious to
expel from the continent, that barbarous and
hellish power