...consent, Sir," said Benjamin Franklin in his speech to the convention of 1787, "to this constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best." The federal government was created to unify the states, to regulate interstate commerce, and to represent...

...consent, sir," said Benjamin Franklin in his speech to the Convention of 1787, "to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best." whole. The wording in the Constitution concerning the powers of the Federal Government seems to be...

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..."for a course of years." (MN at 739) As Franklin put the matter, "I consent. . .to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best." (MN at 740) In the Federalist, the authors did not indulge in extensive speculations about economic...

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...as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies. . . . Thus I consent, Sir, to the Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best. Max Farrand, ed., Records of the Federal Convention 0/1787, rev. ed., 4 vols. (New Haven, Conn., 1987),...