1. Franklin, Jefferson and Paine
... . 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 Gazette, which Franklin also edited ... detailed description of the concepts iterated in the Declaration of Independence. It carried a lot of weight, particularly with royalists, as he was an Englishman who had observed life until the ...
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