From the excerpts of two historical documents, which similarity is most evident?

• A. Both insist that taxes should be reduced.
• B. Both offer accusations of legal oppression.
• C. Both complain about real estate values.
• D. Both encourage the underprivileged to speak up.

Answer: (B)

The main idea is how legal power is used to oppress. In Enlightenment-era political writing, a common move is to critique rulers by showing that laws, courts, and official acts can become tools of control that strip people of liberty or due process. When both excerpts speak about legal oppression, they are pointing to how the authority claims to act under the law while actually curtailing rights or punishing dissent through legal mechanisms. This shared emphasis—the idea that law can be weaponized to dominate rather than protect—is what makes the similarity most evident.

Taxes or real estate values can appear in political writing, but they’re not the central thread across two documents of this kind. Likewise, encouraging the underprivileged to speak up may occur in some texts, but the stronger, more consistent link is the critique of how legal power enforces oppression.