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**Conditions for Revolt: Interview with Thomas Paine**

**— Re **port by Andrew Kim   **S**ix months ago, Thomas Paine’s Common Sense was published anonymously in January 1776 and has impacted our minds significantly; we have moved on from a stage of the suppressed to the stage of enactment. It only took Paine’s vigorous and inspiring statements to enlighten the crowd.  **“G**overnment is a necessary evil…” Thomas said, “that should be with the least expence and greatest benefit.” He admits that government is unwanted necessity as nothing but heaven is impregnable to vice and vice needs to be restrained. He mentions the Quartering Act in 1765 proving English government a dead weight for a lost cause, called protection—which we cannot call it as protection ever since the Bloody Massacre in Boston.  **H**e also states, “Governments by kings,” whom we have served for centuries, “was the most prosperous invention the Devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry.” This is, indeed, true as British army has killed several innocent men and attempted to tax our ships and treated us as rebels.  **“I**n British government, we shall find the base remains of two ancient tyrannies, compounded with some new republican materials. First, the remains of monarchical tyranny in the person of the king. Second, the remains of aristocratical tyranny in the persons of the peers. Compounded with new republican materials is the persons of the commons.” He argues that this becomes a paradox and “a mere absurdity” in English parliament. These “flat contradictions” must be amended by any means he says.  **“N**o matter who or what says no,” Thomas Paine concludes his thoughts, “people are justified to move on forward, stepping out of the antiquated system to evolve. If there is an oxymoron, if there is unnatural distinction, if there is an unnecessary evil, something must be wrong and we, the people, are there to fix it. It is unnatural for the big to follow such small being.”

Highlights of the Interview

 *  “Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness //positively// by uniting our affections, the later //negatively// by restraining our vices… The first is a patron, the last a punisher. ”


 *  “The remains of monarchical tyranny  in the person of the king. The <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">remains of aristocratical tyranny <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> in the persons of the peers. The new republican materials in the persons of the commons, on whose virtue depends the freedom of England. The two first, by being hereditary, are independent of the people; wherefore <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;"> in a constitutional sense they contribute nothing towards the freedom of the state. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> To say that the constitution of England is a union of three powers reciprocally checking each other, is farcical, either the words have no meaning, or <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">they are flat contradictions <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">.”


 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> “M <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">ankind being originally equals in the order of creation <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance; the distinctions of rich, and poor… But there is another and greater distinction, for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">the distinction of men into KINGS and SUBJECTS <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">. Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and bad are distinctions of heaven…”


 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> “…the plain truth is that it is //<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">wholly owing to the constitution of the people, and not to the constitution of the government //<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">, that the crown is not as oppressive in England as in Turkey.

=<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">War Started =

**<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">— **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**R**eported by Dean Lee <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">As the British commander in Boston sent a detachment troops to Lexington and Concord, Britain now had a war on its hands. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">King George III had obviously regarded the Americas as treasonous, and also rejected the Olive Branch Petition. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Antagonism also rose in colonies as response, and further violence seems to be inevitable.

=<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Justification of Revolution = <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**—R**eported by Dean Lee <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">This war is a revolution how it is apparently colonies’ uprise against the Britain. Although some colonists—such as loyalists—show disagreement to revolution, colonies are indeed justified in revolt.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The Original Transcription of **Declaration of Independence**
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[Numbers labeled are not present in original document]
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">"He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
 * 13) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
 * 14) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
 * 15) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
 * 16) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
 * 17) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
 * 18) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
 * 19) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
 * 20) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
 * 21) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
 * 22) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
 * 23) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
 * 24) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
 * 25) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
 * 26) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
 * 27) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions."

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> "Translated" Declaration of Independence

 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Royal veto was given to the British crown, and he had the right to nullify any legislation passed by the colonial assemblies if mercantilist system was disturbed by such laws.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">King ordered governors that any laws cannot be passed without his agreement, even though the law is of emergence importance. By doing so, he did not authorize such laws.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">By establishing new countries, the king refused to pass other laws for original colonies, unless the colonists give up the representation in Parliament.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">In order to exhaust public and bring them into his order, he summoned legislative bodies at unusual, uncomfortable, and far places from the depository, such as moving Massachusetts Assembly to Salem in 1774.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">King often dissolved representative house repeatedly as representatives denounced invasion in their rights. Virginia Assembly, for example, was dissolved in 1765.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">After King dissolved representative house, he also refused to hold elections. Even though legislative powers remained in people's hand, colonies were exposed to all the dangers of invasions.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">King prevented growth in population of the states. To do so, he did not approve laws for naturalization of foreigners and encouragement of migration. He also made difficult to acquire new land, and this is evident in Proclamation of 1763.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">By disallowing the establishment of judiciary powers, King prevented the administration of justice.
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">King made judges dependent only on his will for tenure of the offices and the payment of the salaries. Townshend Act came into place as it assigned external, or indirect levies on several goods which were used to pay colonial governors, who had previously been paid directly by colonial assemblies.
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">In order to obtain wealth from colonists, new offices were made and number of officers were sent. For example, as Navigation Laws was enforced, none of tea shipped by the East India Company reached the consignees—the person something is sent to.
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">British army was in the colonies without agreement from colonies, now that the French were expelled from the continent and Pontiac's warriors defeated.
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">King valued military superior to the civil power.
 * 13) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">By combining with others, King subjected colonies to foreign jurisdiction that is not acknowledged by colonies' laws, and allowed laws from Parliament that claimed legislation of colonies by:
 * 14) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Sending large bodies of armed troops. (Boston Massacre occurred between Bostonian civilians and locally stationed British redcoats, and redcoats fired on the crowd, killing or wounding 11 citizens.)
 * 15) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Protecting these soldiers from punishment for any murders, and "Intolerable Acts" allowed officials who killed colonists to go to Britain for trial.
 * 16) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Closing the tea-stained harbor until damages were paid (Boston Port Act), and cut off trade with all parts of the world.
 * 17) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Imposing taxes without agreement, such as Stamp Act-tax on an array of paper goods.
 * 18) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Depriving colonists of the benefits of trials by jury.
 * 19) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Summoning colonists to Britain for pretended offenses.
 * 20) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Abolishing the free system of English laws in Quebec, establishing an autocratic government, and enlarging its boundaries, which Britain will introduce such dictatorship in America.
 * 21) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Taking away charters, abolishing the most important laws, and manipulating the forms of government in colonies. Many of the chartered rights of colonial Massachusetts were swept away.
 * 22) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Suspending colonial legislatures, and declaring that Britain has the power to legislate for colonies. Stamp Act Congress was largely ignored in England.
 * 23) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">King abdicated colonies by declaring colonies out of his protection and waging war against.
 * 24) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">King plundered the coasts, burned the towns, and killed colonists, such as in the burning of Falmouth in October 1775.
 * 25) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">King, unworthy of the head of a civilized nation, introduced the such cruelty and perfidy that were not present even in the most barbarous ages, and to impose death, desolation, and tyranny, he is transporting large armies of mercenaries. Hessians are hired from their princes by the king to aid in putting down the colonial insurrection.
 * 26) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">King coerced fellow-citizens caught on sea to bear arms against fellow colonies, execute their friends and brethren, or get murdered by the hands of Britain.
 * 27) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">King agitated internal disturbances among colonies (such as slave revolts) and attempted to bring merciless Indian savages—who set rule of warfare to kill regardless of ages, sexes, and conditions—upon the inhabitants of frontiers

= Navigation Acts in, Goods Only to Motherland? = English Parliament begins to strangle its own beloved colonies for profit. English know-nothing governor hoped to protect English shipping by sacrificing the colonies economic freedom. Thus the rivalry began between the big and the small.

= No West — Proclamation of 1763 = In 1763, the London government prohibited us from moving beyond the Appalachians. Even though the government says that they were trying to work out the conflict between the Indians, its main goal was to keep us in one location so that they could regulate us easily. We should feel a strong resentment from this proclamation because we have lands that we cannot use due to the proclamation.

Most importantly, it is unbelievable that the King took side with the Indians instead of us. The King should allow the people to go to the land and expand our colonies. The London government and the King are trying to gain control over our colonies. Thus, we should take action before they actually do something that is harmful.

Thus, the Proclamation of 1763 is an offense to our land and we should feel angry about this action.

= First Law Ever Passed — Sugar Act = Now Britain is not only trying to limit us from expanding but also taxing us to gain their profit. In 1763, Prime Minister George Grenville issued the Sugar Act and put taxes on our sugars. This gave severe impact on our economy and it worsened our economic depression. Thus, British is not considering about our condition and they are only looking for their own profit from the this act.

They say that we should pay money to the government for protecting us; however, it is severely ruining our economy. Most importantly, they are taxing us without representation, which is destroying our rights.

Moreover, offenders of the act was proven to be guilty until they were proven innocent; thus, our rights were being controlled by the British. We should take control and change this policy.

= Taking Our Profit — Stamp Act = The British is wanting more money from us by taxing us with stamps. This act began in 1764 and it will affect us severely. Currently, stamps are required for fifty trade items and other commercial documents. Thus, the King and government are trying to take our profit as a motherland.

They believe that we should pay for the defense; however, this act is too harsh and it is hard for us to live. Most importantly, this is “Taxation without representation,” which makes us feel resentment against Britain.

We should think about becoming an independent nation from the Britain and do not follow their rules.

= Why Should we House Soldiers? — Quartering Act = The Quartering Act began in 1765 and it is affecting us severely. Soldiers are sleeping in our houses and we have to provide food for the soldiers. Why should we be the ones who take care of the soldiers?

Although Britain is spending about 35,000 pounds each year for soldiers in America, we do not need them to be in our colonies. The French are expelled and Pontiac’s Uprising was now terminated; therefore, there is no need of soldiers. Most importantly, we dislike the standing armies instead we rely on militia units.

We should feel dissatisfied by this action. They are putting a lot of soldiers in our colonies unnecessarily and we do not like the soldiers being in our colonies.

= Tax Again? — Townshend Acts = Tax on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea begins by the Parliament in 1767. Currently British is earning a lot of profit from this act and taking a lot of our money from it. They took 40,000 pounds.

Why are the British keep taxing us and taking our rights of taxing ourselves? They are absurd to tax us again. We are definitely unsatisfied with this act because the government and the King are not only taking our profit but also our rights.

= Taking Our Profit Again? — Tea Act = England says that they did not want to tax the colonists; however, they were trying to trick us with some kind of tactic. We think that Britain is trying to gain popular support for taxes and win their popularity by sending seventeen million pounds of teas to the colonies.

We will respond to this action by not selling the teas to our colonies. This is again offending our rights and we should resent this act!

= British Takes Military Action — Coercive Acts of 1774 = British has just gone insane and they took the rights of the colonial Massachusetts. As you now we are losing our control over the colonies and they are replacing with a strict rule that will ruin our lives. Before anything more serious events happen we should take action.

Even though the British say that they came to restore order in Massachusetts, it was very harsh for them to come to our colonies and force us with army. There should something done now!

= Prohibitory Act = The infuriating Prohibitory Act was passed in 1775 to block American ports and treat us, colonists, as a group of rebels. This, in effect, was England declaring a war against unready colonists. This led into colonists seizing British ships to break through the naval blockade.

= The Bloody Massacre = In this massacre, there were people dead and injured. The event occurred in 1770 and soldiers were attacking innocent colonists. This shows that British wants us dead and we should start protecting our colonies from them.

Most importantly, in the court the British soldiers were not seriously accused of murder and they did not get into serious trouble after killing and injuring us. Therefore, we should do something to protect our people from being killed by the British.

We should look for Independence and revolt against Britain.

= Questions and Answers =
 * Q: “These days, British government has been harsh against American colonists. But, do these things really justify for revolting against their own traditional government?” **

**A:** The colonists were justified to rise up against their abusing government, because their rights and voices were ignored. Such cases was when English Parliament lawfully but forcefully enacted the Proclamation of 1763, limiting our outgrowing boundary of needs and wants. English government aggravates the situation in the colonies by not only restricting the “society” but also enlarging the “government” unnecessarily. Hence North America has become a place with a need of struggle for rights due to Stamp Act, Navigation Act, Tea Act, and more. We have asked for say in the parliament regarding taxation, and we heard a gunshot from them. What can we ask for more now? Only a war to settle this matter down.

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