By keeping the tax on tea when it repealed the other Townshend Duties,

By keeping the tax on tea when it repealed the other Townshend Duties, Parliament

A) reasserted its authority to tax and legislate for the colonies.
B) in effect, repealed the Declaratory Act.
C) admitted that taxing trade to raise revenue was a failed policy.
D) symbolically recognized the right of colonists to tax themselves through their own colonial assemblies.

ANSWER
A