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Ben Franklin was born in Boston January 17, 1706. His brother started __The New England Courant__, the first newspaper in Boston. Ben wanted to be a writer too but he knew that his brother wouldn't let him. So he wrote a series of stories and slid them under the print shop door. Not knowing who the author was he published it. It was a hit. Ben later confessed that he was the author and his brother harrassed him and sometimes beat him. So Ben ran away to Phildelphia. Ben later started his own print shop called the __Pennsylvania Gazette__. Ben was very educated and became intrested in politics. Ben franklin was also an inventer. He became intrested in electricity and invented the lightning rod. In his political life he went to other countries including France to nogotiate treaties like The Treaty of Paris. He also signed the Constution and the Declarition of Indpendence. He was one of the United States founding fathers. Ben Franklin died on April 17, 1790 at the age of 84. There were 20,000 people at his funeral.
 * Ben Franklin**

The Constutinal Convention took place in the summer of 1787 in Phildelphia. The convention took place in secrecy. The delegates didnt want their opinoins to be changed by the newspapers. The Constutinal Convention helped the developing nation greatly. It basically made a new Articles of Confederation called the Constution. The Articles of Confederation were not good enough to run a large country. They gave the power to print money, declare war, and much more to the states almost making hem their own little countries. The Articles of Confederation also made a very weak national government that couldn't even tax the people! The new Constution had a lot of contreversy. Many thought the Constution made the national government too strong. The delegates made sure that one person wouldn't be too powerful by creating checks and balances between the three branches of government. It also made the Constution be able to change with the years with the power to amend the Constution.
 * The Constutinal Convention**