Benjamin Franklin

he found out that lighting is electricity by taking a kite and attaching in to a metal pole

As to the document bearing that title, yes. As to the proclamation by which the Second Continental Congress actually purported to declaring independence from Great Britain, the Lee Resolution of July 2, 1776, no. Also I try to hard to answer a question....

Then again, the document held in the National Archives is not the document approved on July 4. The word "unanimous" in the title was not added until after the New York delegation finally cast its affirmative vote on July 9. Actually, the title wasn't changed until Congress ordered the modification of July 19. The Dunlap Broadsides had been in circulation by July 5 - one of them having been sent to London. They were never signed. The original sent by the Congress to Timothy Matlock to be engrossed was either lost or destroyed. The engrossed copy was returned on August 2. There was no signing ceremony and it took almost a year to get "all" the signatures. The Congress had ordered that all members present for the vote were to sign. However, several of those members who had voted against the document and the concept of independence (don't forget, only about 20% of the colonial population favored independence in 1776 on only about 1/3 supported the cause at it's peak - excluding the Canadian and Caribbean colonies, of course, who flat out refused the invitation to join the insurrection) had been removed and replace. The lovers of liberty didn't tolerate dissention within their ranks. Those removed were never granted the invitation to sign (not that they would have availed themselves of the opportunity had it been offered). To be fair, others who had nothing whatsoever to do with either the Lee Resolution or the Declaration were allowed to sign. Robert R. Livingston, one of the Committee of Five who wrote the draft that was sent to the Congress for final editing and revision, never did sign. At the time, he didn't support a move for independence. John Dickinson also refused to sign for the same reason. The reason that the document (or, for that matter, the concept of separation and independence) was never put to "We the People" for popular vote was that it would have been resoundingly defeated. Loyal colonials in 1776 outnumbered the rebels by at least 2 to 1, and there were at least as many 'neutrals' as there were rebels. It was not a popular cause. When the Goddard Broadside was printed in January, 1777, some signatures were still missing.

In any case, the document was meaningless as a matter of law or political consequence. Independence achieved only when it was granted by the British in the Treaty of Paris in 1783. At that time, thirteen new nations were created in North America. The independence of those nations was never surrendered by them when they formed alliances under the Articles of Confederation or the Constitution of the United States. In 1865, it was determined by war that the federal government had become the very monster that the Founding Fathers and Framers of the Constitution feared and had tried to prevent. Then, and only then, was it understood universally that the United States of America was a single entity composed of subservient states, rather than an alliance of co-equal independent nation-states united for their general good and who had delegated limited aspects of their autonomy to a central government for very limited purposes which affected them all and over which uniformity of legislation was deemed necessary and appropriate.

The actual history is far more interesting than such mundane issues as who signed what, especially when that which was signed (like the Declaration of Independence) was so very meaningless at the time.

He "helped" write it and he was one of the last to sign it.

january 6 1888

No, Benjamin Franklin did not invent money. Money existed many centuries before Benjamin Franklin lived. You can read in the Old Testament of the Bible about Abraham using money in 2,000 B.C. That was 4,000 years ago. However, Benjamin Franklin invented a number of different things such as bifocals and the Franklin stove and profited from his inventions. When he died, either he or George Washington was the richest man in the United States.

The quote is an analogy that means that Democracy alone is simply Majority Rule (whatever the most people decide, is what the government does); which is basically unfair to any minorities. True freedom comes from the ability of a minority to protect itself from the "wolves" of Democratic government and the majority. For example, American slavery until the Civil War was Democracy in action, because the majority of Americans supported slavery.

The quote often attributed to Ben Franklin (a Founding Father of the US) goes "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch; Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." It has been an anecdote for many years before the Internet. There are so many attributes to Franklin for this quote, that I am inclined to think it came from him, or a later student of his writings. However, I believe the advent of the Internet & the course of time have changed the words from the original quote. Having read a lot of Franklin's writings, I would expect at one time he PROBABLY said something like this: "Liberty should be like two wolves and a well-armed sheep voting on what to have for dinner." Many of his contemporaries probably understood as he did the inherent problems of pure democracy, so there was probably no need for that half of the analogy. He would have known that lambs are baby sheep (not old enough to vote?), and "lunch" was not a term in use during Franklin's time. This quote would have worked well with the situation of British majority rule over colonial America and the minority of independents who wanted self-government and freedom.

German immigrants.

he believed only government had real security for all important rights

Though there were some early attempts at "safe construction" and "prevention" of fires, it was the young Benjamin Franklin who, in about 1736, began urging people through his "Pennsylvanian Gazette" to begin the establishment of fire-fighting companies.

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he asked why not when and iam trying to figure this out myself

Benjamin Franklin, was an inventor also, and his inventions help to contribute to government also. Just the act of inventing something inspired many other Americans to think of inventions and other ways of improving the lives of other Americans.

he invented lots of things and discovered electricity.

Franklin was more often an appointed diplomat than a politician, and was rarely elected to anything. The most terms he was elected to was President of the Executive Council of Pennsylvania -- the equivalent of governor -- specifically, three times.

Ben Franklin and Thomas Edison were both famous inventors, even though Ben was older. They both were curious and asked lots of questions. They were both some of America's best and favorite inventors.

Hume, Priestley, Lavoisier and Condorset.

Dr. Bancroft, a physician and naturalist (also Franklin's secretary in Paris), Jonathan Williams, William Alexander, and English banker Thomas Walpole were among others.

The same day he discovered that electricity has + charges and - charges.

becuz they both was presedents

he is 31 years old

This is the best I can do.

(see the link below)

if you are using the South Carolina prentice all literature book its on page 145 im trying to find it also :( but that's where its said to be

Ben Franklin was the Fifth child in his Family

Benjamin Harrison was born on August 20, 1833 and died on March 13, 1901. Benjamin Harrison would have been 67 years old at the time of death or 181 years old today.

its like to involve on somethings