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Questions about political terminology, including established definitions and appropriate usage, and subjects directly related to it.

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How did the term 'whip' come to be?

I was just reading about what a whip is in the US Senate here. It got me wondering, why is it called a whip? It seems like an odd name to me when it could have just been called like 'leader' or 'speak …
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