How would Paine most likely respond to Burke’s
statement in lines 30-34, Passage 1 ("As the . . .
born")?
A) He would assert that the notion of a partnership
across generations is less plausible to people of
his era than it was to people in the past.
B) He would argue that there are no politically
meaningful links between the dead, the living,
and the unborn.
C) He would question the possibility that significant
changes to a political system could be
accomplished within a single generation.
D) He would point out that we cannot know what
judgments the dead would make about
contemporary issues.