How does the author use source material from shakespeare to explicate the central idea of the passage?
a) he cites shakespeare to indicate the limits of philosophy.
b) he cites shakespeare to give an aura of culture to his writing.
c) he cites shakespeare to portray the love between rita and camillo as essentially superficial.
d) he cites shakespeare to underline a fundamental disagreement between the two main characters.

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c.    

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the passage can be best described as: "the british legislature extended an unwarranted jurisdiction".

we can say that because the text clearly states how the people of the colonies warned the british about their excessive desire to rule over them, without taking into consideration the difficulties their brothers had experienced in america: they struggled to establish the colonies, to adapt to new types of weather, fight with the natives, etc., and how they now see (or then saw) the only way out was to cut all ties with the british, since they ignored the people's petitions.