Examine the usage of the words bequeath and posterity in this excerpt from Thomas Paine's Common Sense. Then complete the sentences that
follow
The authority of Great Britain over this continent, is a form of government, which sooner or later must have an end: And a serious mind can
draw no true pleasure by looking forward, under the painful and positive conviction that what he calls "the present constitution" is merely
temporary. As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may
bequeath to posterity,
According to Paine, the government of Great Britain will bequeath
to the colonists
He also implies that the posterity