C. Great Britain wanted the American colonists to pay taxes on imported goods.
APEX
The answer is:
B. Changing the meaning of the quotation by changing the context.
Because changing the meaning of the quotation by changing the context constitutes a case of intellectual dishonesty.
Henry David Thoreau and during his time at Walden, Thoreau spent a night in jail for refusing to pay his poll tax. He withheld the tax to protest the existence of slavery and what he saw as an imperialistic war with Mexico. Released after a relative paid the tax, he wrote “Civil DisobedienceExternal” (originally published as “Resistance to Civil Government”)
