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To: the scotsman

Yet the Act of union is kind of like the joining of many countries to the EU — the majority of the population were against it —> Sir George Lockhart of Carnwath, the only member of the Scottish negotiating team against union, noted that “The whole nation appears against the Union” and even Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, an ardent pro-unionist and Union negotiator, observed that the treaty was “contrary to the inclinations of at least three-fourths of the Kingdom”


28 posted on 01/17/2012 6:31:52 AM PST by Cronos (Party like it's 12 20, 2012)
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To: Cronos

True.

Then again, only one third of the American population wanted freedom from Britain 1776-1783. A third opposed it, and the latter third sat on the fence. Contrary to the myth an entire nation rose up against the hated British.


37 posted on 01/17/2012 2:36:54 PM PST by the scotsman (I)
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