Part a: according to the author of this article, what resulted from the meeting of the first continental congress? a a focus on using economic power to force the british government to treat colonists as if they were english citizens living in great britain b the belief that the colonies benefited from their ties with great britain and therefore would have to accept their limited political rights c a decision that colonists’ next step should be to dissolve their local governments and demand colonial representation in the parliament of great britain d an acknowledgement that political and financial remedies had been exhausted and that the next step would have to be military action