Answer:
C) But even this is admitting more than is true, for I answer roundly, that America would have flourished as much, and probably much more, had no European power had anything to do with her.
Step-by-step explanation:
The final line supports the idea that the American colonies might have flourished without British authority. It claims that the US would have expanded as much or more without European involvement in its founding. The fact that the US might have succeeded without Britain's assistance supports this. This phrase implies that the colonies thrive without British aid. After independence, the American colonies survived through inventiveness and resourcefulness.
Options:
A) I have heard it asserted by some, that as America hath flourished under her former connection with Great Britain that the same connection is necessary towards her future happiness and will always have the same effect.
B) We may as well assert that because a child has thrived upon milk that it is never to have meat, or that the first twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty.
C) But even this is admitting more than is true, for I answer roundly, that America would have flourished as much, and probably much more, had no European power had anything to do with her.
D) The commerce, by which she hath enriched herself, are the necessaries of life, and will always have a market while eating is the custom of Europe.