Use the passage from Common Sense to answer the question. "MANKIND being original equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance: the distinctions of rich and poor may in a great measure be accounted for . . .

But there is another and great distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men into KINGS and SUBJECTS."

What was the argument in the passage used to justify?
A.
the colonists' decision to break free from Britain

B.
Britain’s increased taxation after the French and Indian War

C.
the addition of the Bill of Rights to the Constitution

D.
the decision to set enslaved people free after the American Revolution