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James McHenry, a Maryland delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, kept a journal of the experience. It is from this journal that a famous statement was attributed to Benjamin Franklin, a founding father of the United States and the only one who signed three of America’s founding documents - the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Paris in 1783 that formally ended the Revolutionary War and recognized the United States of America as an independent nation, and the Constitution of ...