Read this passage from "the monk's tale" by geoffrey chaucer:
consider adam, made by god's own finger,
and not begotten of man's unclean seed,
he that in eden was allowed to linger
– now called damascus - and had power at need
what is the most likely meaning of the metaphor in this passage?
a. adam was created by god himself.
b. adam didn't have human parents.
c. adam lived in what is now damascus.
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d. adam was permitted to live in eden.

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.