Read the excerpt from Common Sense. As to government matters, it is not in the powers of Britain to do this continent justice: The business of it will soon be too weighty, and intricate, to be managed with any tolerable degree of convenience, by a power so distant from us, and so very ignorant of us; for if they cannot conquer us, they cannot govern us. To be always running three or four thousand miles with a tale or a petition, waiting four or five months for an answer, which when obtained requires five or six more to explain it in, will in a few years be looked upon as folly and childishness—there was a time when it was proper, and there is a proper time for it to cease.

What does this paragraph suggest about Paine?

He is frustrated by the inconvenience of British governance from afar.

He feels Great Britain is no longer capable of effectively governing the colonies.

He believes the bonds between Americans and Great Britain are unbreakable.

He is concerned that the British have lost interest in supporting America.