Put yourself in the shoes of an American colonist who is attending the Second Continental Congress as a delegate at the start of 1776, and who is strongly opposed to the independence of the 13 North American colonies from the British Empire. Give a fiery speech in which you summarize the main arguments of Thomas Paine's Common Sense and counter those arguments point by point.

The quote below is an excerpt from the charter of the united nations: "the purposes of the united nations are: to maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace . " source:this section implies that the united nations is prepared to do what to keep world peace?