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" In these sentiments, sir, 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... "
The Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of His Life Written ... - Page 244
by Benjamin Franklin - 1807 - 295 pages
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An Anticorruption Strategy for Local Governments: Program for the Study of ...

Thomas W. Fletcher, Paula Gordon, Shirley W. Hentzell - Government publications - 1979 - 78 pages
...a list of further reading, and an appendix end the handbook. II THE ETHICAL BASIS OF PUBLIC SERVICE "There is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered. .. this [government] is likely to be well administered for a course...
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Bicentennial of the Constitution: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution - Constitutional history - 1982 - 112 pages
...AS THEY COMPLETED THEIR WORK IN PHILADELPHIA, WAS PERHAPS BEST REFLECTED BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: SlR, I AGREE TO THIS. CONSTITUTION WITH ALL ITS FAULTS,...is NO FORM OF GOVERNMENT BUT WHAT MAY BE A BLESSING TO THE PEOPLE IF WELL ADMINISTERED, ... I DOUBT TOO WHETHER ANY OTHER CONVENTION WE CAN OBTAIN, MAY...
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Dreiser: Sister Carrie; Jennie Gerhardt; Twelve Men

Theodore Dreiser - Fiction - 1987 - 1168 pages
...I meet with no body but myself that 's always in the right. // n'ya que moi qui a toujours raison. In these Sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution,...is no Form of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well administred; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administred...
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The Constitutional Convention and the Formation of the Union

Winton U. Solberg - History - 1990 - 548 pages
...meet with no body but myself, that's always in the right—// n'ya que moi qui a toujours raison." In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution...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...
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In gods we trust

Thomas Robbins - 560 pages
...call for unanimous consent in hopes that that too might help the document be accepted, and he said: In these sentiments. Sir, I agree to this Constitution...is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe further that this is likely to be well administered...
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The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial

Robert N. Bellah - Religion - 1992 - 223 pages
...call for unanimous consent in hopes that that too might help the document be accepted, and he said, "In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution...is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe further that this is likely to be well administered...
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Early American Writing

Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...with nobody but myself that is always in the right." "]e ne trouve que moi qui aie toujours raison." In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution,...is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people, if well administered; and I believe, farther, that this is likely to be well administered...
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Richard M. Weaver, 1910-1963: A Life of the Mind

Fred Douglas Young - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 244 pages
...with Franklin's warning to the Philadelphia Convention just after they had signed the Constitution: I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults,...is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered; and believe further, that this is likely to be well administered...
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Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of ...

I. Bernard Cohen - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 378 pages
...fuller consideration, to change my opinions even on important subjects." Furthermore, he thought that "there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people, if well administered." On the basis of these and other reflections, chief of which was...
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Autobiography and Other Writings

Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 404 pages
...but I meet with no body but myself that's always in the right. Il n'ya que moi qui a toujours raison. In these Sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution,...is no Form of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well administred; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administred...
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