On the recordJanuary 1, 1776
A long series of politics so remarkably distinguished by a succession of misfortunes, without one alleviating turn, must certainly have something in it systematically wrong.
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Thomas Paine
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Paine analyzes the British government's repeated failures in the American Revolution, attributing them to a fundamental flaw in their political system.
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