The main content of the passage is to present a possible situation in which a violent leader imposes the law on the country by force ("at the point of the sword"), which presumably leads to many deaths. This was what has happened, in Paine's interpretation under William the Conqueror in England. The intention is to show that this situation is undesired in America and to encourage Americans to fight against such a government.
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The especially harsh winter of 1777-1778 put the American army to the test, and hundreds of the 11,000 troops posted at Valley Forge died of disease. The suffering soldiers, on the other hand, were kept together by their devotion to the Patriot cause and to General Washington, who remained with his men.
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