It's only now occurring to me that the worst effect of the weakness of Wilentz's argument *against* the significance of the Somerset judgment in shaping American opinion on independence is that it makes Somerset seem *more* significant than it probably was.
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They're ineluctably interconnected.
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But like everyone he has changed over time and so have the politics he was/is reacting to.
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