Question

Complete the analogy: America staying with Britain would be like a child .

Answer 1

Answer:

remaining dependent on its parents forever and never growing up.

Explanation:

This is a famous quotation from Thomas Paine's Common Sense which was published in 1776, and that was distributed across the colonies. There he argued why the colonies should not be dependent of the Britain, and why at the end they should fight to govern themselves. Paine pamphlet heavily influenced and even shaped the beliefs of colonists in that period.