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This week, we remember the conciliatory resolution.

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In late February 1775, Parliament debated the conciliatory resolution. When we remember history, we tend to simplify things.

In that simplification, we think that Parliament demanded colonial submission and was ready to go to war

to compel the colonies. Of course, as is almost always the case, the politics of the matter was much

more complicated. Now, great many members of Parliament sympathized with the colonists.

There was a political group in Britain who called themselves the Whigs.

In the 18th century, this wasn't really a formal political party like it is today,

but it was those who came together under common political philosophies.

The term Whig comes from the Scottish Wigamore, which essentially meant a naive person from the country.

The closest we probably have to that term today is probably Bumpkin. By the 18th century,

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