Answer:
C. The belief among colonists that they had earned a right to greater liberty from Britain
Explanation:
From Paine's argument above he was most likely about the situations of "The belief among colonists that they had earned a right to greater liberty from Britain."
This is evident when he tried to discourage the idea that American colonists or settlers are still Britons. He wrote that "Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe."