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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was a remarkably talented man. He started his career
as a simple printer apprentice, but went far beyond the printers shop. He
developed products that were far beyond the time. The Franklin stove for
example, for cold winter nights and bifocal lenses for reading. Franklin
tracked storm paths to help un ....
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.... Franklin had to wrestle with his
conscience over his own private affairs. Also, since he was well respected in
England, he was "the Establishment man-even if he felt now a deep unease on the
basic question: What was the authority of Parliament over the American
colonies?" (Wright, page 205). At first Franklin wanted the colonies to be and
independent free nation under the caring and protecting umbrella of the British
Empire. "He had dream...of a great British Empire, gridding the globe, based
upon a commonwealth of free nations, each with its own laws, its own go ....
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