Matrix of Excerpts from Common Sense

Instructions: Use the matrix below to record your interpretation of each excerpt displayed. You may restate each excerpt in any way you wish (written or visual), but keep your interpretations clean! Letter Excerpt from Common Sense What the Excerpt Means in Our Own Words

I have heard it asserted by some, that as America hath people around her happy to get her happy. Also that this is hard to prove flourished under her former connection with Great Britain, wrong or go up against. the same connection is necessary toward her future happiness, and will always have the same effect. Nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argument. We have boasted the protection of Great Britain without This means to me that people boast about things that they cannot call their own to considering that her motive was interest, not attachment, boast about. It also means that this she is very sacrificial and it not like other people and that she did not protect us from our enemies on out like boasting about things that you didnt do and stuff like that. account, but from her enemies on her account This means to me that her surrounding has higher standards like kindness but she But Britain is the parent country, say some. Then the more cannot live up to the standards. shame upon her conduct. Even brutes do not devour their young, nor savages make war upon their families I challenge the warmest advocate for reconciliation, to This means to me that colonists are challenging any British person because they think show a single advantage that this continent can reap, by they can farm and harvest better than the British. Means that the worst farmer of the being connected with Great Britain. I repeat the challenge; colonists can beat the worst British farmer. not a single advantage can be derived. This means to me that the perfect place for a king or a ruler is small, incapable of Small islands, not capable of defending themselves, are the defending itself and the weakest islands. proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. In no instance hath nature made the satellite larger than its primary planet. Nothing but independencecan keep the peace of the continentA government of our own is our natural right: and when a man seriously reflect 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 This means to me that independence is the key to peace.

This means to me that she has to work just as much as she worked to get

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