Question

Which lines in this excerpt from the poem "A Political Reverie" by Mary Otis Warren imply that America was an oppressed and exploited nation?

a. Nor orphan's spoils become the minion's prey
b. Nor injur'd cities weep their slaughter'd sons
c. And standing troops, the bane of every state, Forever spurn'd, shall be remov'd as far
d. And stretch their empire o'er the wide domain. On a broad base the commonwealth shall stand
e. When crowns and sceptres are grown useless things, Nor petty pretors plunder here for kings

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