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Letter: Have we lost our way?

Editor, Gazette-Journal:

From the president, to federal, state and local elected representatives, there are often harsh words and missed opportunities to get things done, including issues that could be dealt with if they just followed the Constitution. Even the Supreme Court seems to be floundering, and this is a dangerous time. The following is a speech by Benjamin Franklin at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. Many people think that Mr. Franklin was an agnostic, but his words spoken then are definitely those of a man who was certain that God is real and necessary to all people:

“Mr. President: The small progress we have made after four or five weeks’ close attendance is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. In this situation, how has it happened Sir that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to ...

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