The underlined word election has multiple meanings. How is the word election being defined and used in the passage below?

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"Liberty or Death" by Patrick Henry

". . . Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now to late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come."

A
predestination to eternal life

B
right or power to make a choice

C
an act of choosing someone for public office by voting

D
the act of being elected