Please help me I need it by today In this activity, you'll take on the role of a colonist in pre-Revolutionary America. In a
letter to your (fictional) cousin in Great Britain, make your argument for the colonies'
independence, using specific references to the reasoning and evidence in Patrick
Henry's speech or Thomas Paine's text.
This writing assignment will focus on the following skills:
Establishing a claim
Providing relevant evidence
Addressing the counterclaim(s)

1. What is your claim? Your claim should respond directly to your cousin's argument
that the colonies should stay under British rule. Your claim should also give at least
one supporting reason.

2. Choose at least three facts or ideas from Henry's or Paine's writing that you can
use to provide evidence for your claim, and briefly explain how they support your
claim.

3. Write down the strongest counterclaim to your argument you can think of, and then
briefly explain how you will provide a rebuttal.

4. Write a preliminary outline for your letter. Write a short sentence or a phrase to
describe each main part of your letter: the claim, each piece of evidence that supports
your claim, a counterclaim your cousin might make, and your rebuttal of that
counterclaim.

5. Think of some transitions you might use to separate each part of your letter.
Should your first and second pieces of evidence be separated by furthermore or in
contrast, for example? Add these transitions to the outline you created in question 4,
but feel free to change them when you actually write your letter.

6. Write a basic summary of your argument here.

7. Write a full draft of your letter here.

Dear Cousin,

I agree with Paine when he said that the colonies need independence from Great Britain. Our colonies have been striving well. We can make our own naval fleet bigger than the British Navy. If we build our own, then maybe we can grow and trade with other countries with much ease. We should not depend on Britain, because we will never grow as a nation. Independence will allow us to grow and prosper, much bigger than the country that has colonized us.

Your cousin,

Lilly

among the numerous advantages promised by a well constructed union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. the friend of popular governments never finds himself so much alarmed for their character and fate, as when he contemplates their propensity to this dangerous vice. he will not fail, therefore, to set a due value on any plan which, without violating the principles to which he is attached, provides a proper cure for it. the instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished; as they continue to be the favorite and fruitful topics from which the adversaries to liberty derive their most specious declamations. the valuable improvements made by the american constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cannot certainly be too much admired; but it would be an unwarrantable partiality, to contend that they have as effectually obviated the danger on this side, as was wished and expected. complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority. however anxiously we may wish that these complaints had no foundation, the evidence, of known facts will not permit us to deny that they are in some degree true. it will be found, indeed, on a candid review of our situation, that some of the distresses under which we labor have been erroneously charged on the operation of our governments; but it will be found, at the same time, that other causes will not alone account for many of our heaviest misfortunes; and, particularly, for that prevailing and increasing distrust of public engagements, and alarm for private rights, which are echoed from one end of the continent to the other. these must be chiefly, if not wholly, effects of the unsteadiness and injustice with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administrations.

explanation: the latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society. a zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good. so strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts. but the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. a landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views. the regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation, and involves the spirit of party and faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of the governmen

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