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who were more radical in their leanings
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ultimately have a slight majority
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in this Continental Congress
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and so in the end they actually win the day,
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but it isn't obvious
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that that's going to be the case at the outset.
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Now the delegates to this Congress met
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in Philadelphia in the beginning of September in 1774.
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There were 55 men present and, as I mentioned before,
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most of them had some kind of experience
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with politics in their individual colonies.
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Now if you do think about the fact