Here is Benjamin Franklin, just before appending his name to the most famous piece of parchment in American history: “I confess there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure that I shall never approve them. For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.” No speech could have been more appropriate for the founding of the United States, a nation established in no small
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