Essay #2 Outline 2

1. Section 1 is Economics

---a. This will start by quoting “The American Crisis” to say “Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has the right (not only to tax) but “to bind us in all cases whatsoever.” (Paine, Writings 68)
---b. It will then say that Britain was attempting to elicit every last drop of wealth from our lands. ("A Declaration by the Representatives of the United Colonies of North-America, Now Met in Congress at Philadelphia, Setting Forth the Causes and Necessity of Their Taking Up Arms")
---c. I will point out that the original charter for Maryland declared that the ruler, even though he was almost a “Constitutional King”, still had to consult the freemen of the colony before raising a tax.
---d. Then I will go on to say that I, as with many others, believe that these enforced and powerful taxes should not have been able to be levied by a group that is not answerable to any of the taxed (Constitution of Maryland 5)
2. Section 2 is Politics.
---a. This will state that the government of England is corrupt for Americans because they have no choice in the representation, and that there is little representation in it to begin with (Paine, Common Sense 7)
---b. This will state that the government of England is also corrupt because it’s organization is to complex and nonsensical (Paine, Common Sense 8)
---c. This will quote the constitution of Maryland in saying that “The parliament of Great Britain, by a declaratory act, having assumed a right to make laws to bind the Colonies in all cases whatsoever,… to subjugate the United Colonies to an unconditional submission to their will and power” (Constitution of Maryland 3).
---d. Then I will synthesize these points into I say by going as far as to say that the government of the Colonies by England, like the kind, guiding hand of a parent, was necessary at their conception but is no longer advantageous or justified for the Colonies. We shall now expound on our parents guidance with the experience and distance granted from our current, similar yet removed situation.
3. Section 3 is War
---a. First I shall point towards their blockade of Boston, calling upon Patrick Henry’s speech to say that “Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation” (Henry) and expound to say that they are not, they are acts of war that cannot, in good conscious, be ignored. They are a slap to the face of America and this duel should not be ignored.
---b. Then I shall point out that we have gotten into many battles, provoked by them, in which we have conducted ourselves according to our experience (Paine, Writings 172)
---c. I shall then synthesize these points to say that Britain has provoked us to a war. I will than go on to say that, as a parent should not hit a child unprovoked, the mother country should not reprimand its delegates without cause, and that in doing so, Britain has relinquished its right to rule of our fair colonies.


Citations:

Maryland, Constitutions of Maryland. 1776, 1851, 1864, and 1867. Maryland: 1905.

(Constitution of Maryland 1-26)

Paine, Thomas. Common Sense. Bantam Books, 2004.

(Paine, Common Sense 7)

Paine, Thomas. The Writings of Thomas Paine. 1. G.P. Putnam's sons, 1894.

(Paine, Writings 68)

Representatives of the United Colonies of North-America, "A Declaration by the Representatives of the United Colonies of North-America, Now Met in Congress at Philadelphia, Setting Forth the Causes and Necessity of Their Taking Up Arms." Yale.edu. Yale. 14 Nov 2008 .

("A Declaration by the Representatives of the United Colonies of North-America, Now Met in Congress at Philadelphia, Setting Forth the Causes and Necessity of Their Taking Up Arms")

Henry, Patrick. "Patrick Henry - Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death ." Yale.edu. Yale. 14 Nov 2008 .

(Henry)

West, Willis. The Story of American Democracy, Political and Industrial. Allyn and Bacon, 1922.

(West 42)