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- GLC#
- GLC08828
- Type
- Newspapers
- Date
- December 5, 1787
- Author/Creator
- Russell, Benjamin, 1761-1845
- Title
- Massachusetts centinel. [Vol. 8, no. 23 (December 5, 1787)]
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 39.1 cm, Width: 25.5 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Includes the speech of Benjamin Franklin, "delivered immediately previous to his signing of the Federal Constitution." Franklin states, "I confess that I do not entirely approve of this Constitution at present; -but, Sir, I am not sure I shall never approve it... On the whole, Sir, I cannot help expressing a wish, that every member of the Convention who may still have objections to it, would with me on this occasion, doubt a little of his own infallibility, and to make MANIFEST our UNANIMITY, put his name to this instrument."
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