Ineed to find one argument and 2 claims from these below britain is unable to properly govern america. the american colonists are too resistant to british rule to remain content as britain's dependents. britain has given the american colonies too low a priority to be able to oversee their economies properly. the time it takes to travel between the two countries makes governing and communication too difficult to be effective. the distance from england to america is too far for england to properly govern america. heres the short excerpt from common sense by thomas paine as to government matters, it is not in the powers of britain to do this continent justice: the business of it will soon be too weighty, and intricate, to be managed with any tolerable degree of convenience, by a power so distant from us, and so very ignorant of us; for if they cannot conquer us, they cannot govern us. to be always running three or four thousand miles with a tale or a petition, waiting four or five months for an answer, which when obtained requires five or six more to explain it in, will in a few years be looked upon as folly and childishness—there was a time when it was proper, and there is a proper time for it to cease.