Essays of Benjamin Franklin

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Identifikator:: 1752429486

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-127700

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Franklin, Benjamin http://d-nb.info/gnd/118534912

Title:: Essays of Benjamin Franklin

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: G. P. Putnam's Sons

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: xi, 273 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Introduction was poured upon him by Wedderburn, give, together, an impression of an Ambassador who was certainly discharging in full measure his obligations to the Dominions he was representing. With a full measure of prejudice against the colo- nials, whom they persisted in regarding not as fellow citizens, but as subjects of Britain, the more intelli- gent Englishmen of the day could not but be im- pressed with the manliness and the dignity that characterized the Ambassador from America, and the fullness and precision of his information. Franklin's claims to recognition of the rights of English-speaking peoples throughout the world were based on Magna Charta. The great Charter se- cured, in 1215, certain rights that were essential for free men. The “free men” whom the Barons and Archbishop Langton had in mind in 1215 comprised but a small number of citizens. The circle of free men has gradually extended so as to include the millions of citizens who are now entitled to the exer- cise of the rights that were secured for English-speak- ing peoples in 1215. It was for the rights of the greatest of these Eng- lish-speaking communities (rights based on the Char- ter of 1215) that Franklin was contending in 1774. If the English statesmen of the day had been large- minded enough and clear-headed enough to realize that the contentions maintained by Franklin, and by the Americans whom Franklin was representing, were based not only on the great Charter but on the great law of justice that should control the action of all government, the American Dominion could have 1V

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