Base your answer to the question on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies. ...Small islands not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something very absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. In no instance hath nature made the satellite larger than its primary planet, and as England and America, with respect to each other, reverses the common order of nature, it is evident t

Base your answer to the question on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.
...Small islands not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something very absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. In no instance hath nature made the satellite larger than its primary planet, and as England and America, with respect to each other, reverses the common order of nature, it is evident that they belong to different systems: England to Europe, America to itself....
— Thomas Paine, ​Common Sense
14. The argument presented in this passage was intended to
A. urge colonists to accept the Albany Plan of Union
B. provide a reason for ratification of the Constitution of the United States
C. convince American colonists to declare their independence
D. persuade France to aid the United States in the Revolutionary War