That period, thank God, is past, and she is no longer the dependent, disunited colonies of Britain, but the independent and United States of America, knowing no master but heaven and herself.
Paine declares in "The American Crisis" that America has transcended its colonial past to become a sovereign nation, accountable only to itself and God.
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