“I confess that there are several parts of this constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them,” Franklin had written, but “I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need
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