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Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson
William Samuel Johnson was allowed to join the constitutional convention because people respected him and he had influence on some of the other members. He was recommended by other friends to join.
Johnson believes that slaves should be counted the same as other people for determining a state's representation in the national legislative.
he thought they would help in the south, and didn't want slavery to be abolished. In the year of the Constitutional Convention, his home state, CT had over 2,000 slaves.
There isn't a single statement that least characterizes patriotism. However, Samuel Johnson once referred to patriotism as the last refuge of scoundrels. Oscar Wilde once said that patriotism is for vicious people.