What argument does the author counter in this expert Thomas Paine's Common Sense?

The correct answer is D) the colonies continue to depend on Britain for protection and governance.

The argument does the author counter in this excerpt from Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" is that the colonies continue to depend on Britain for protection and governance.

The author clearly states that America does not need the association with Britain and its against those voices that said that "that as America has flourished under her former connection with Great Britain, the same connection is necessary towards her future happiness, and will always have the same effect."

Thomas Paine wrote the pamphlet "Common Sense" in 1776. In this pamphlet, Paine challenged the authority of the English monarchy. Un a clear language for everybody to understand it, it was the first document that expressed ideas of independence from the British.

This is the portion of the text that the author commented: "I have heard it asserted by some, that as America has flourished under her former connection with Great Britain, the same connection is necessary towards her future happiness, and will always have the same effect. Nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argument. We may as well assert that because a child has thrived upon milk, that it is never to have meat, or that the first twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty."

The other options of the question were A) Britain provides ample welfare to all her colonies, including America. B) The colonists do not benefit from their alliance with Britain. C) Britain does not provide adequate resources for the growing colonies in America.

The colonies continue to depend on Britain for protection and governance.