Read the text below, then answer the question. The question before the Court and you, Gentlemen of the jury, is not of small or private concern. It is not the cause of one poor …

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Read the text below, then answer the question.

The question before the Court and you, Gentlemen of the jury, is not of small or private concern. It is not the cause of one poor printer, nor of New York alone, which you are now trying. No! It may in its consequence affect every free man that lives under a British government on the main of America. It is the best cause. It is the cause of liberty…

–Andrew Hamilton
Closing argument in the Peter Zenger Case

What is the main idea of this quotation?

The result of the Zenger case will impact all of the people in the colonies.

Andrew Hamilton thinks that Peter Zenger is guilty of the crime of libel.

The colonists in New York were the only ones who supported Peter Zenger.