Question

What argument does the author anticipate and indirectly refute in this excerpt from the Declaration of Independence?

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

a. The colonists are suffering only because of their lack of representation in Parliament.

b. If the colonists are suffering, they need to first submit a petition to Parliament.

c. The colonists have no right to oppose the laws and taxes levied by the king of England.

d. Parliament has no involvement in the matters of the American colonies.

Answer 1

The author anticipates and indirectly refutes that if the colonists are suffering, they need to first submit a petition to Parliament. The answer to your question is B. I hope this is the answer that you are looking for and it comes to your help.

Answer 2

The correct answer is:

If the colonists are suffering, they need to first submit a petition to Parliament.

The petition of the British Colonies in North America opposing the 1765 Stamp Act was an unusual move by Parliament. This action was the starting point of a chain of events that ended up leading to the American Declaration of Independence in July 1776 the following year.