Patrick henry, of "Give me liberty 

 * or give me death" fame, heartily ad- 

 vocated independence from England and just 

 as vigorously opposed the union of the 

 colonies under our present constitution. It 

 took all the persuasion of John Marshall 

 to persuade Virginia to adopt the constitu- 

 tion and become a part of a stronger union. 

 Judge James Winthrop, prominent lawyer 

 of Cambridge, Mass., later a judge, violently 

 opposed the union of the colonies as pro- 

 posed under our federal constitution and 

 tried to prevent Massachusetts' acceptance 

 of it. 



In one of the "Agrippa" letters he said, 

 "It is impossible for one code of laws to 



suit Georgia and Massachusetts The 



idea of an uncompounded republic ... all 

 reduced to the same standard of morals, of 

 habits, and of laws, is in itself an absurdity, 

 and contrary to the whole experience of 

 mankind. ' 



Doubts and Misgivings 



No worthwhile change or progress has 

 been made that was not attended with some 

 doubts and misgivings as to the future ef- 

 fects of such steps. However, no progress 

 would be possible if we did not have cour- 

 age to trust the future and faith that our 

 fellowman would help us to guard the 

 progress that has been made. In arriving 

 at some of the decisions we have to make 

 today in regard to the establishment of a 

 larger school district, perhaps we should 

 adopt the philosophy of Benjamin Franklin, 

 which he so well expressed in his appeal to 

 the members of the Constitutional Conven- 

 tion to sign the document. The question 

 here was, "Shall we go our several ways in 



By JOHN COX 

 lAA Director of Rural School Relations 



impotence or combine our resources in 

 strength for the good of all.'" On this very 

 important question, Franklin said: 



"1 confess that there are several parts 

 of this Constitution which I do not at 

 present approve, but I am not sure 1 

 shall never approve them. For having 

 lived long, I have experienced many in- 

 stances of being obliged by better in- 

 formation, or fuller consideration, to 

 change opinions even in important sub- 

 jects, which I once thought right, but 

 found to be otherwise. It is therefore 

 that, the older I grow, the more apt I 

 am to doubt my own judgment, and to 

 pay more respect to the judgment of 

 others. Most men, indeed, as well as 

 most sects in religion, think themselves 

 in possession of all truth, and that wher- 

 ever others differ from them, their own 



infallibility, few express it so naturally 

 as a certain French lady, who, in a dis- 

 pute with her sister, said, 'I don't know 

 how it happens, sister, but I meet with 

 nobody but myself, that is always in the 

 right.' 



Cannot Expect Perfection 



"In these sentiments, sir, I agree to 

 this Constitution with all its faults, if 

 they are such. I doubt, too, whether any 

 other Convention we can obtain may be 

 able to make a better Constitution. For 

 when you assemble a number of men to 

 have the advantage of their joint wisdom, 

 you inevitably assemble with those men 

 all their prejudices, their passions, their 

 errors of opinion, their local interests and 

 their selfish views. From such an as- 

 sembly can a perfect production be ex- 

 pected? It therefore astonishes me, sir, 

 to find this system approaching so hear to 

 perfection as it does. Thus, I consent, 

 sir, to this Constitution, because I ex- 

 pect no better, and because I am not 

 sure, that it is not the best. If every one 

 of us, in returning to our constituents, 

 were to report the objections he has had 

 to it, and endeavor to gain partisans in 

 support to them, we might prevent its be- 

 ing generally received, and thereby lose 

 all the salutary effects and great ad- 

 vantages resulting naturally in our favor, 

 from our real or apparent unanimity. 



"On the whole, sir, I cannot help ex- 

 pressing a wish that every member of the 

 Convention who may still have objections 

 to it, would with me, on this occasion, 

 doubt a little of his own infallibility, 

 and to make manifest our unanimity, put 

 his name to this instrument." 



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