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there is a quote from thomas paine's The Crisis Number One"to bind us in all cases whatsoever" refering to a declaration by parliment but i can't find a document it was declared in (its not the declaration of causes and necessity)

2007-10-30 11:26:30 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities History

i know what the quote means, im trying to find the document it is in for a paper i am writing

2007-10-30 11:38:37 · update #1

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Paine's interpretation of the British was a disapproving one. he wanted the colonists to understand that they did not have to accept restraint from the British. He made references to the British hold on the colonies as an intruder breaking into a private home to steal and ravage. "...if a thief break into my house, burn and destroy my property, and kill or threaten to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever," to his absolute will, am I to suffer it?" Paine wanted the colonists to know that it was their right to live happy lives at their will. He wanted to give the feeling that the British were not only unjust in their acts on on the colonies. Rather, it was personally against the colonists. Allegiance to the British, he claimed, would make less of a person.

From an analysis by Richard DeStefano


http://www.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/paine/painexx.htm

2007-10-30 11:39:38 · answer #1 · answered by Randy 7 · 0 1

might want to check the declaration of independence, I might of saw this line in there before. Means to bind all the people in one group or one case in which each is able to establish themselves as citizens.

2007-10-30 11:30:49 · answer #2 · answered by punkrockerforever 4 · 0 1

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