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Subject Area: Political Theory
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Topic: The American Revolution and Constitution

CCXXXIV.: Benjamin Franklin to the Duc de La Rochefoucald. 1 - Max Farrand, The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, vol. 3 [1911]

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The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, ed. Max Farrand (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911). Vol. 3.

Part of: The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, 3 vols.

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CCXXXIV.

Benjamin Franklin to the Duc de La Rochefoucald.1

That which you mention did not pass unnoticed in the Convention. Many, if I remember right, were for making the President incapable of being chosen after the first four Years; but a Majority were for leaving the Election free to chuse whom they pleas’d; and it was alledged that such Incapability might tend to make the President less attentive to the duties of his Office, and to the Interests of the People, than he would be if a second Choice depended on their good opinion of them.

[1 ]Smyth, Writings of Franklin, IX, 666.