1. I would like to thank George Miller for suggesting this excerpt from The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, edited by Albert Henry Smyth, 10 vols. (New York: Macmillan Co., 1905–7). The full essay from which this excerpt was taken can be accessed online at The University of Chicago Press, The Founders Constitution, vol. 1, chap. 15, doc. 27: http://press-pubs.uchicago. edu/founders/documents/v1ch15s27.html.