Beginning a sentence with the word "Resolved" is a short form to say "It is resolved" or "we have resolved that...". It means that the Senate and the House of Representatives reached to an agreement about the topics discussed in that paragraph.
A reader should use context clues
Answer:
the speaker is a Protestant and a member of the Irish upper class.
Explanation:
To make comparing easier, convert all the numbers to decimals. Then, put those decimals on a number line and compare them to each other.