Yeah, though it's the kind of thing that comes and goes, or at least, in the very specific formulations that showed up there. Classical revivals were a kind of fad, more than they were built in, even if there was a lot of Roman underpinnings.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect
The French couldn't help themselves with the Roman things either. to be fair.
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Replying to @Rage_Crayon @arthur_affect
Yeah true, although admittedly, that's the same generation.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect
The older ones maybe? Many of the most important French Revolution names were in their 30s.
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Replying to @Rage_Crayon @arthur_affect
OK, fair - but in a broad sense, it's a closely-related cultural moment, so they were more sharing a hobby than independently going for the Latinophilia.
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I am kind of curious why they didn't call it "Parliament" though.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @Rage_Crayon
"Congress" and "parliament" had different connotations The word "parliament" was traditionally used to mean a group of people summoned to give advice to the king By contrast a "congress" meant a negotiation among equals, like during diplomats of warring countries
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Rage_Crayon
It's really a shame we didn't stick to the Germanic tradition and just call it the "Thing"
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But yeah - I guess it's also not necessarily a noun originally, at least not in the sense that House+Senate = Congress. The meetings were a congress.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @Rage_Crayon
The original Congress was the Continental Congresses, which were diplomatic conventions held among the states, which saw themselves as separate entities The name stuck even as the US evolved toward being a single nation
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It was a name with a lot of significance too, like during the Revolution the term "Congress Man" meant a revolutionary (as opposed to a "King's Man")
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