Sunday, November 16, 2008

Outline #2

Body:
a. Protecting their people.
i.“and use my utmost endeavors to protect the people thereof in the secure enjoyment of all their rights, franchises and privileges;” http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/ga02.asp
1.This quote tells me about how the “rights, franchises and privileges” of the colonists are being protected against Britain.
2.Protecting the rights of the colonists is most important
 
b. Individualism
i. ”…do by these presents, make, erect and create one independent and separate province, by the name of Georgia, by which name we will, the same henceforth be called. And that all and every person or persons, who shall at any time hereafter inhabit or reside within our said province, shall be, and are hereby declared to be free, and shall not be subject to or be bound to obey any laws, orders, statutes or constitutions, which have been heretofore made, ordered or enacted by, for, or as, the laws, orders, statutes or constitutions of our said province of South-Carolina” http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/ga01.asp
1. I think that when Georgia finally became its own separate state(/colony) It showed how they wanted independence. The second step of that is to turn away from Britain.

c. Common Sense
i. "As to government matters, it is not in the power 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." http://www.ushistory.org/paine/commonsense/singlehtml.htm
1. It's not logical to govern across waters. Especially because of the time it takes for ideas and documents to travel.

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