Have We Now Forgotten That Powerful Friend?
Benjamin Franklin was eighty-one years old when he came to the Constitutional Convention. The delegates couldn’t agree on anything at first. Then, they adopted Franklin’s resolution that they begin each session with prayer. With God’s help, they drafted the United States Constitution. They created a new form of government that had never existed before. A government whose power is derived from the consent of the governed. A government of the people, by the people and for the people. This is…