When the articles of confederation were drafted, americans had had little experience of what a national government could do for them and bitter experience of what an arbitrary government could do to them. in creating a central government they were therefore more concerned with keeping it under control than with giving it the means to do its job."
-edmund s. morgan, the birth of the republic, 1763-89, 1956
what pieces of evidence would best support the author's conclusion?

paine is arguying that they had tried everything before coming to the conclusion that they needed to fight for their freedom.

argument: "every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual."

claim 1: "our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in kings more than repeated petitioning and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of europe absolute."

claim 2: "wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for god’s sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."

answer: d

explanation:

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