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Rhetorical Analysis Of Speech In The Convention

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In the speech “Speech in the Convention” (1787), Benjamin Franklin adjures that his fellow Convention members should accept and sign the Constitution and keep any personal dissatisfaction they have with the document to themselves. Franklin admonishes the delegates at the Convention to support the Constitution by telling them that their doubts in the Constitution maybe be because of their imperfect knowledge, by praising the Constitution (“…near to perfection”), and by calling the members of the convention to “unanimously [recommend] this Constitution”. In order to convince the members of the Convention to sign the Constitution even though they may have disagreements with it, Franklin explains that because the authors of the Constitution are
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