The internal invasion of England is depriving three million people of their rights, liberties, and pursuit of happiness. An invasion occurs not just through violent insurgencies, but through the tolerances of human injustice, degradation of humanity, and abuse of power by England’s own citizens who conceal themselves behind a monarchal government. These subtle approaches to invade a country are more powerful because the acts are …show more content…
Paine stresses that, “For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have a right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others for ever,”. Government is supposed to be a representative of its people whose purpose is to serve their interests and not ones’ own self-interest. However, the monarchy continuously supports its interest through reining kings and queens who have direct family relationships. This suggests that nothing will change because those in power will continue to govern according to their ancestors. “To the evil of monarchy we have added that of hereditary succession; and as the first is a degradation and lessening of ourselves, so the second, claimed as a matter of right, is an insult and an imposition on posterity.” Although some may argue that America gained prosperity under the reigns of Britain, however, those who support this view of the monarchy are few. “I have heard it asserted by some, that as America hath flourished under her former connection with Great Britain, that the same connection is necessary towards her future happiness, and will always have the same