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...life, one of his mantras had been, "Both sides must part with some of their demands." He used this phrase many times, but never more notably than when the Constitutional Convention became deadlocked on the issue of whether the new Congress should be proportioned by population or have equal votes for each state...
Finally, he incorporated some compromises suggested by others into a specific motion. Representatives to the lower House would be popularly elected and apportioned by population, but in the Senate "the Legislatures of the several States shall choose and send an equal number of Delegates...
...Constitutional Convention, formally proposes "great compromise" that creates a House with proportional representation and a Senate with equal votes per state...
OPPOSITES ATTRACT Starting with a simple glass tube that collected static charge when rubbed, above, and later using a hand-cranked machine built for the same purpose, left, Franklin meticulously experimented on the behavior of electricity. Perhaps his most important discovery was that electrical phenomena involve equal amounts of opposite charges. He used the terms positive and negative to describe them...
...have appreciated the slave's newfound skills because, at the time, Franklin was revising his opinion about Africans' capabilities. A few years later, after visiting an Anglican school for blacks in Philadelphia, he concluded, "Their Apprehension seems as quick, their Memory as strong, and their Docility in every Respect equal to that of white Children...