Subscribe Today » Dear Mr. Franklin: It has come to our attention that you may have held reservations, when you freely announced that we had a republic, if we could keep it.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was an American scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, political philosopher, and one of our Founding Fathers. He helped draft the Declaration ...

Editor: Memorandum across the centuries to the Honorable Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: After the U.S. Constitution was drafted, you were asked what type of government we would now ...

After his presentation the editor answered audience members' questions. Mark Skousen, an economist, is Benjamin Franklin's eighth-generation grandson, through Franklin's grandson Louis Bache.

Editor: Memorandum across the centuries to the Honorable Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: After the U.S. Constitution was drafted, you were asked what type of government we would now ...

Benjamin Franklin’s letter addressed to the Constitutional Convention, held in the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia, deserves to be dusted off – and perhaps read into the Congressional Record ...