... as their own."" Franklin led all the people of his time in his lifelong concern for the happiness, well-being, and dignity of humanity. George Washington spoke for a whole generation of Americans in a letter to Franklin in 1789: "If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired ... know that you have not lived in vain." John Adams guided the young United States through some of its most serious troubles. He served under George Washington as the first vice president, and followed him as the second president. The United States government moved from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., duri...

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... . Not only providing an idyllic depiction of independent America, the language used also suggests a need for persuasion. The relentless list of anti-royal complaints, repetitively beginning He ' completely belittles King George III, as a leader, and proves him a disinterested and wholly inadequate statesman for such a great establishment as America: A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant ... fight in order to achieve this description of independence, but gives a much more spiteful, bitter tone than the initial talk of remorse. This, combined with t...

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