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Title: The government of the people of the state of Pennsylvania
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Thorpe, Francis Newton, 1857- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Eldridge & brother
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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claration of Inde-pendence. Benjamin Franklin was made Postmaster-Gen-eral, and Robert Morris, another eminent Pennsylvanian,was chosen Financier of America. 25. In 1787, in Philadelphia, there assembled the mostcelebrated gathering of able men ever seen in America—the men who framed the Constitution of the UnitedStates. In that convention no other State could boast of suchdelegates as were sent by Pennsylvania. Foremost in famewas Franklin, who divided with Washington the admira-tion of the world. He was widely famed before many ofhis illustrious colleagues in the convention were born.In science, in diplomacy, in society, in letters, in practicalbusiness, in great public charities and in organizations ofwide influence to this day, he was foremost; and of all theAmericans in an age of great men, he is still more talkedand written about than any save Washington. As presi-dent of his State he sat most influential in the delegation,and, though too feeble by reason of age to participate
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H H^^BHLii 18 THE CIVIL GOVERNMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA. actively in the debates of the convention, by his presenceand by his inexhaustible good humor and practical sa-gacity his influence was so great that it may be said thatthe Constitution could not have been framed withouthim. 26. Other influential Pennsylvanians in the conven-tion of 1787 were Thomas Mifflin, member of Assembly,and nine years governor of his State; Robert Morris, thefinancier of the Revolution, delegate to Congress, a signerof the Declaration, first United States Senator from Penn-sylvania, and founder of the Bank of North America;George Clymer, one of the signers, a delegate to Congress,and afterward a member of the House of Representatives;Thomas Fitzsimons, a famous merchant of Philadelphia;Jared Ingersoll, the leader of the bar of the State ; JamesWilson, a student at four universities and the ablest con-stitutional lawyer in the convention, a frequent debater,afterward professor of law in the University of Pennsy

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