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"If every one of us in returning to our Constituents were to report the objections he has had to it, and endeavor to gain partizans in support of them, we might prevent its being generally received, and thereby lose all the salutary effects & great advantages resulting naturally in our favor among foreign Nations as well as among ourselves, from our real or apparent unanimity."

Benjamin Franklin speech to the Convention prior to the signing of the final draft of the Constitution, September 17, 1787.

Telling the delegates your actions speak to foreign nations, and that division is seen as a weakness!

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks for posting those words! I have a book I think it is called Night Falls on Philadephia -- think I need to read it again and be reminded of what those founders of this Nation had to say.