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Today, episode 83, that Continental Congress in the winter of 1776.

As I mentioned when I last focused on the Continental Congress, back in episode 75, Congress remained in continuous session after returning in September 1775.

Some members would come and go, but since the congressional committees were effectively serving as both

the legislative and executive branches, members had a lot of work to do.

What I may not have made clear in earlier episodes was that everything Congress was doing was pretty much a secret.

Congress did not meet in open sessions.

From time to time they might make some public pronouncement such as

mourning the death of General Montgomery in Canada, but no one outside of Congress really

had a good idea of what they were doing.

Like the country at large though, most of Congress seemed to be moving toward acceptance of American independence.

Thomas Paine's publication of common sense

sped popular support for independence.

Even so, more conservative patriots in Congress,

like John Dickinson, John Jay, James Wilson, and others

refused to accept that independence would be the ultimate goal.

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