Which quotation from the declaration of independence indicates that the founding fathers rejected the idea of having a monarchy in the newly independent colonies?

a. “the history of the present king of great britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations.”

b. “we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

c. “a prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”

d. “[i]t becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.”