Focusing on Constitutional Principles  www.cacp.info – # 636 – 9-9-06 – 119 – Donald Conkey

 

A Founders Quote: Benjamin Franklin, following the signing of the Constitution on September 17, 1787, said: “I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance [as the framing of the new United States Constitution] . . . should be suffered to pass without being in some degree influenced, guided, and governed by that omnipotent, omnipresent, and beneficent Ruler in whom all inferior spirits live and move and have their being.” Question: Could Franklin have felt the presence of that “omnipotent, omnipresent, and beneficent Ruler” he spoke of in this historic Constitutional Convention meeting in 1787 in order to make such a powerful statement? 

Source: The writings of Benjamin Franklin