The passage implies that the colonials discussed in the passage would have considered which one of the following to b...
ishadoshiSeptember 3, 2019
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The passage implies that the colonials discussed in the passage would have considered which one of the following to be a source of their debates with England?
A: their changed use of the English political vocabulary
B: English commitment to parliamentary representation
C: their uniquely English experience
D: their refusal to adopt any English political institutions
E: their greater loyalty to the English political traditions
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This question asks us to identify the source of their debates with England from the perspective of the colonials. The passage provides information on what the actual differences were, e.g. parliament powers, but it also explicitly tells us that "the colonials failed to observe that their experience...different from that accepted by the English with whom they debated, in fact, THEY CLAIMED that they were more loyal to the English political tradition than were the English in England" (lines 6-12). We can thus infer that colonials considered their greater loyalty to the English political traditions to be the source of their debates with English regardless of whether this is historically accurate.
