Which sentence is in passive voice?
a. the clouds floated in a gorgeous blue sky.
b. the snow covered everything in our backyard.
c. lucy went to the library to study.
d. the ship was overturned by powerful waves.
e. barry chopped vegetables for dinner.

"such has been the patient suffrence of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to after their former systems of government. the history of the present king of great britain is a history of reapeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishedment of an absolute tyranny over these states." which statement best describes the excerpt