But the declaration as it now appears, unaccompanied by time, has an effect in holding out to the world, that there was no real cause for the revolution, because it denied the existence of all those causes which are supposed to be justifiable, and which the Abbe styles energetic.
Paine critiques the declaration that downplays the causes of the American Revolution, arguing it misrepresents historical grievances.
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