In paragraph 1, henry says of the colonists, “‘we have prostrated ourselves before the throne.’” in this context, what does it mean to prostrate oneself?

The options of the question are, A) put oneself in a humble and submissive position. B) to use up one’s physical and mental process. C) to waste one’s time in a hopeless cause. D) to put oneself in an advantegeous situation.  

The correct answer is A) to put oneself in a humble and submissive position.  

What Patrick Henry means when he says “we have prostrated ourselves before the throne” is to put oneself in a humble and submissive position.  

The text that is referred is part of the speech delivered by Patrick Henry on March 23, 1776. It was delivered to the second Virginia Convention in the city of Richmond. In the first part of the speech, Henry declared that “we have prostrated ourselves before the throne”, meaning that they had done everything in their hands to avoid the difficult situation to come, to the limit of supplicating, or as the speech states: “…have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry an parliament”.