[Footnote i-345: _Ibid._, VIII, 452; June 7, 1782 (to Joseph Priestley).] [Footnote i-346: _Ibid._, IX, 241.] [Footnote i-347: _Ibid._, IX, 330.] [Footnote i-348: _Ibid._, IX, 521; see also IX, 489.] [Footnote i-349: Although the preponderance of evidence bears out the trustworthiness of this assertion, one can not idly dismiss his _Some Good Whig Principles_ or disregard his expressed belief that the people "seldom continue long in the wrong" and if misled they "come right again, and double their former affections" (cited in W. C. Bruce, _Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed_, II, 100; also see _Writings_, X, 130). There is a clearly evident polarity in Franklin's mind between ultra-democratic faith and a rigorous observation that if "people" are so constituted, many men are utter rascals. One almost senses a dichotomy between Franklin the politician and Franklin the man and moralist.] [Footnote i-350: See his _The Constitution of the United States_ (New York, 1924).] [Footnote i-351: _The Records of the Federal Convention_, ed. by Max Farrand, I, 488; see _Writings_, IX, 602-3, 595-9.] [Footnote i-352: _Writings_, IX, 596.] [Footnote i-353: _The Records of the Federal Convention_, I, 47.] [Footnote i-354: _Ibid._, I, 165.] [Footnote i-355: _Writings_, IX, 593.] [Footnote i-356: _The Records of the Federal Convention_, I, 109.] [Footnote i-357: _Ibid._, II, 120.] [Footnote i-358: _Ibid._, II, 204.] [Footnote i-359: Franklin objected to primogeniture and entail.] [Footnote i-360: _Ibid._, II, 249.] [Footnote i-361: Gettell, _op. cit._, 122.] [Footnote i-362: _Writings_, X, 56-8.] [Footnote i-363: _Ibid._, IX, 698-703.] [Footnote i-364: _Ibid._, IX, 608.] [Footnote i-365: _Ibid._, IX, 638.] [Footnote i-366: _Writings_, X, 7.] [Footnote i-367: Letter in American Philosophical Society Library; cited by B. M. Victory, _Benjamin Franklin and Germany_, 128.] [Footnote i-368: _Writings_, III, 96.] [Footnote i-369: _Ibid._, III, 97.] [Footnote i-370: _Ibid._, III, 107.] [Footnote i-371: _Ibid._, IV, 221.] [Footnote i-372: _Ibid._, IV, 377.] [Footnote i-373: _Ibid._, V, 165. He repeated this thought to Beccaria in 1773 (_ibid._, VI, 112). Also see V, 206, 410-1, VII, 49.] [Footnote i-374: _Ibid._, VII, 418; also see VIII, 211.] [Footnote i-375: _Ibid._, VIII, 315; also see letter to Priestley, June 7, 1782, VIII, 451; to Comte de Salmes, July 5, 1785, IX, 361.] [Footnote i-376: _Ibid._, IX, 652.] [Footnote i-377: _Ibid._, IX, 621. He wrote this after he was reappointed President of Pennsylvania in 1787. He confessed, however, that this honor gave him "no small pleasure."] [Footnote i-378: W. P. and J. P. Cutler, _Life, Journals and Correspondence of Rev. Manasseh Cutler_, I, 269-70.]