The idea that is embodied in the excerpt is that D). The king needed the consent of Parliament in order to tax people.
What was the power of the English king to tax people?
The English Bill of Rights included the various rights that the English people had to be protected from the excesses of their monarch.
One of these rights was that they could not be taxed unless Parliament agreed to the taxation policies to be imposed by a king.
The excerpt is:
"...that the pretended power of suspending the laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, without consent of Parliament is illegal...that levying money for or to the use of the Crown... without grant of Parliament...is illegal...that it is the right of the subjects to petition the king... and that prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal..." —English Bill of Rights
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