If you accept either C or D as the correct revision then you have to accept both of them. Hence the best way to treat the sentence is to ignore both of them.
B is not correct either. You can over punctuate.
That leaves A.
Sometimes the right answer to many things is to do nothing. My dad used to say "Don't fix what isn't broke."
A is the answer <<<<<
I would say that the intended meaning of that hyperbole is that the speaker thinks that the colonists are being unfairly treated by the British government.
I think men and women can work equally as hard…this question is circumstantial and s t u p i d
