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(02.02 MC)This question refers to the following excerpt.”he Minority should submit calmly and chearfully to what the Majority determines, ’til Time and Experience shall either convince, or furnish them with more forcible Arguments against it. Then we shall hear one another patiently, put the Weight of every Man’s Reason in the Ballance against our own, and at last form a Judgment upon the whole Matter; which, if not the wisest, yet, resulting from the Integrity of our own Principles, will be honest and commendable…And, however Mankind may be provoked, by being thwarted with the Sentiments of other Men, a Variety of Opinions is not only absolutely necessary to our Natures, but is likewise of all Things the most useful; since if all Men were of one Mind, there would be no Need of Councils; no Subject for Learning and Eloquence; the Mind would want its proper Exercise, and without it, like the Body, would lose its natural Strength, from a Habit of Sloth and Idleness. Truth itself will receive an Addition of Strength by being opposed, and can never be in Danger of suffering by the Test of Argument.”Source: Sir John Randolph, from his speech upon his being elected speaker of the House of Burgesses, of Virginia, 1734The ideas described in the excerpt reflect how in the early years of the British colonies, they