According to the author, servants of seventeenth-century England were excluded from the franchised because of the belief that A. their interests were adequately represented by their employers B. their education was inadequate to make informed political decisions C. the independence of their political judgment would be compromised by their economic dependence on their employers D. their participation in the elections would be a polarizing influence on the political process E. the manual labor that they performed did not constitute a contribution to the society that was sufficient to justify their participation in elections