Question

Read the excerpts below and answer the question.

That the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, dominion noun

1 at the time the Spartans had dominion over Athens: supremacy, ascendancy, dominance, domination, superiority, predominance, preeminence, hegemony, authority, mastery, control, command, power, sway, rule, government, jurisdiction, sovereignty, suzerainty.
2 a British dominion: dependency, colony, protectorate, territory, province, possession; historical tributary.

Pick the option from the thesaurus that describes how the word dominion is used in the excerpt from Jefferson's Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.
SELECT ALL that apply.
authority
dependency
power
protectorate

Answer 1

Answer: authority and power

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

The correct option is option 1 (at the time the Spartans had dominion over Athens) and the selected words that apply are authority and power. Given that the definition of the noun "dominion", which is an uncountable noun, is "control, or the right to rule over something", the words mentioned before (authority and power) are the ones that are related to the topic developed in the first excerpt from Jefferson's Virginia Statute for Religious. In order to get the meaning, one can replace the word "dominion" for the word "control" in the phrase "men have assumed dominion over the faith of others" (men have assumed control over the faith of others). These two words contribute to the coherence of the text to get a better understanding of it.