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by jessriedel
4090 days ago
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This is a vastly better article, and actually makes a reasonable case. Thanks. Still, I don't think it's fair to say the context is "fundamentally different". In Franklin's situation, the trade-off was to give up a degree of the colony's self-governance (with power taken by the unelected governor) in order to get safety from the war being fought on their frontier. Yes, in his case it wasn't so much personal (individual) liberty as it was the notion of colonial self-governance. But I don't think it's so vastly different as to say the quote's original meaning has been greatly distorted. Here's the original letter: http://franklinpapers.org/franklin/framedVolumes.jsp?vol=6&p... |
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