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... pointing to the Pennsylvania constitution, which became tyrannical because of its extreme power, even though it was extremely democratic, and to the Massachusetts constitution which led to Shay's Rebellion. At first, Shay's Rebellion could not even be suppressed because there was no state militia therefore it was obvious that power needed to be in the national government in order to prevent ... ...
... rules, customs and understandings which, empower and limit the government. The British political authorities have never in modern times faced a crisis that forced them to think the constitution through to first principles and to set these down, therefore the British constitution was never invented or designed but just grew, so that political facts became constitutional rules. This absence of a written constitution ... ...
... ."" This list is really the epitome of what Franklin warned would be the ruin of any man who used his profits in such frivolity. At thirty-three Franklin published the first Poor Richard's Almanac, a collection, effectively, of his own quotes, assembled under the pseudonym Richard Saunders'. Franklin used the character Poor Richard', after the alleged author, to personify the ... America to that found in leafy quiet suburbs of Connecticut. D. H. Lawrence described him as Old Daddy Franklin' in mocking of the legendary status Franklin acquired for setting up the first dummy American' and h...
