The elite leaders of colonial government in the mid-eighteenth century

A) gained the power to initiate all money and taxation bills in their colonial assemblies.
B) spurned any ostentatious show of their great wealth.
C) were appalled by the writings of radical Whig publicists in England.
D) were usually cowed by powerful and domineering royal governors.


A

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