1. United States Policy in Regard
... reiterated to the present day. Born into fairly humble surroundings, one of fifteen children, Franklin was somewhat rebellious but obviously precocious. He took advantage of this intelligence, with his ambition driving him from a very young age he was the owner of a print shop (a fast evolving trade at this point, in America) by twenty-four, soon using this to publish the Pennsylvania ... country as an establishment, and as the example to all other ways of life. And indeed this very attitude is itself upheld; as long as a greater good is served, then force is a perfectly just way of enf...