While the Tea Act of 1773 did not add any new taxes on the activities of colonists, it instead cracked down on illegal smuggling of tea and forced colonists to buy British tea at a higher price. The future implications of further taxes angered merchants and led them to react aggressively by disallowing British tea to land on American soil, which escalated to the Boston Tea Party later that year.
The correct answer is A. the idea of representative government in which people elect officials to speak for them
The Romans established a republic when a government elects representatives to rule on their behalf.
The primary purpose of the Articles of Confederation was to 2. establish the basic framework of the national government. It was not intended to provide revenue to the national government; instead, each state was responsible of regulating its own commerce - the national government couldn't even levy taxes. As such, it was also not intended to to give the national government the power to regulate interstate commerce, quite the opposite the Articles wanted a weak national government. Finally, the Bill of Rights did not come into existence until the First Session of Congress following the adoption of the US Constitution in 1787.