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Pros And Cons Of Unitary Government

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We all need to rise up against the British, we need all of the loyalists to turn their backs on the Crown as well. They think they have a legitimate reason to rule over our colonies, I repeat OUR colonies. They do not have any right over us like they believe they should. God gave us rights as men that can not be taken away and that’s all Britain is trying to do. One reason as to why we should uprise is so that we can form a unitary government, another is so we can finally have a representative in Parliament, and finally is because the king has denied us a voice and recognized us a the a union of states. First of all, don’t you want to have our own government in the colonies instead of being ruled by the British crown? Where we can make our own rules as a collective group instead of being ruled by a monarch? In Thomas Paine’s book “Common Sense,” Paine states, “The prejudice of Englishmen in favour of their own government by king, lords, and commons, arises as much or more from national pride than reason” (Paine 1). This statement is saying that even if you can’t see the reasoning behind …show more content…

The king will not give us that because he doesn’t want to better the colonies. “We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne” (Henry 1775). This means that anything and everything we ask for is being set aside and most of us are tired of the neglect from the King. If we have a representative then we can change the laws and taxes to help us benefit instead of

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