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♪ I see a land with liberty for
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♪ Yet still I know the
truth will rise and fall ♪
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♪ That's just the way it goes ♪
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♪ A word now to the wise ♪
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♪ The world was made to change ♪
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♪ Each day is a surprise ♪
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♪ I'm looking at life
through my own eyes ♪
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♪ I'm searching for a hero to id
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♪ Feeling the pain as innocence
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♪ I'm looking at life with my ow
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♪ I take my heart into battle ♪
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♪ Give that freedom bell a rattl
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♪ Get my independence signed ♪
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♪ Declare it on the dotted line
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♪ That Philadelphia freedom ring
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♪ And patriotic voices sing ♪
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♪ Red, white, and blue never giv
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♪ You represent America ♪
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♪ I'm hoping and praying
for a brighter day ♪
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♪ I listen to my heart and I obe
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♪ How can I see it any other way
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♪ I'm looking at life with my ow
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- Here are some exciting scenes
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today's episode of Liberty's Kid
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- We are threatened by
an excess of democracy,
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a tyranny of the mob.
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Our current system of government
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has turned this country
into the Disunited States.
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- We've had four years of govern
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under the Articles of Confederat
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and they just don't work.
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- If you think I'll sign a const
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that takes away my state's
rights, you're plum crazy.
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- It's not our country, it's a c
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- Dear reader, I'm in Massachuse
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interview Captain Daniel Shays.
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He and a lot of other soldiers
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returned home to their farms whe
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the war ended three years ago,
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but times have been hard.
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Farmers can't pay their debts an
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the government's closing
in to take their land.
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- You're throwing me in jail
'cause I can't pay my debts?
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I borrowed that money I owe 'cau
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the government asked me to so I
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buy more grain to grow more food
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for our army and the French army
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Take your hands off me sir.
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Now that there's no more soldier
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I can't sell my produce.
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Instead of helping me who help y
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you make me sell my farm to pay
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When the money from the
sale doesn't cover my debts,
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you throw me in a cage!
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Me and darn near every other
farmer in Massachusetts,
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we risked our lives
fighting for your freedom!
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- This is not justice!
- Outrageous!
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- We fought for this country!
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- We were soldiers!
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- Order, order!
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- These, James, are what you des
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the fruits of the continental
soldier's courage.
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- Let me go!
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It's not fair!
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I fought for you!
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- And the state's answer to
our honest petition is silence,
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or just about.
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- This won't stand!
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We must act!
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- If the courts mean
to take away our farms
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then throw us in jail,
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maybe we have to close down
the courts any way we can.
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- To the honorable James
Madison, my dear sir,
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your last letter asked for my op
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concerning the state of our
government and our nation.
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Both I fear are drifting
towards certain collapse.
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In Massachusetts, Daniel Shays,
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a former captain in our army,
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has led an attack by
farmers on a federal arsenal
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because the government
took away their land.
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(loud explosion)
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- We fought for this country!
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Give us back our land!
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- Farmers in Maryland
have mobbed a courthouse
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in an effort to destroy tax reco
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to avoid paying taxes
they consider unfair.
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- We do this for freedom!
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- We want our freedom!
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(crowd yelling)
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- Even here in Virginia,
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citizens destroyed a courthouse
out of rage and frustration.
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We are threatened by
an excess of democracy,
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a tyranny of the mob.
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Our current system of government
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turned this country into
the Disunited States.
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I look forward to our
convention in Philadelphia.
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There, we will probe our
defects to their bottom
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and provide a radical cure.
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- Well General, enough delegates
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arrived to begin the convention.
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The eyes of the world are upon u
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Frankly, I've come to the conclu
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that unless we throw out the art
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of confederation and start over,
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we will not be able to
hold our nation together.
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- This is good news doctor.
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Madison and I intend
to use this convention
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to rebuild the republic based on
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central government
stronger than the states.
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May I count on your support?
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- You have my word.
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- Did you hear that?
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They don't just want to fix
the Articles of Confederation,
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they want a whole new constituti
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- Everything's going to change.
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- Maybe it will and maybe it won
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There are 13 states that have to
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and barely any of them
have abolished slavery.
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What's a new constitution
going to do about that?
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- With your permission doctor,
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I'd like to nominate you to be
president of the convention.
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- I'm grateful general, but
the job belongs to you alone.
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There's not another man in the c
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who commands half your respect.
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You're the only one who
can hold everyone together.
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- United we stand, divided we fa
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(bell rings)
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- My old friend James.
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- Alexander Hamilton.
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- This is a historic moment Jame
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as important as when we agreed o
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the Declaration of Independence.
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We've had six years of governmen
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under the Articles of Confederat
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and they just don't work.
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- What do you think should be do
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- You tell your readers that
Alexander Hamilton of New York
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believes in a strong, central go
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- Connecticut is here to fix the
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Articles of Confederation
and nothing more.
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- Make no mistake about it.
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Maryland won't let any of the
big states push us around.
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- Slavery is not the
issue at this convention.
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- But some states have
already abolished it.
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- No southern state ever will.
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Every man here knows the importa
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of slavery to the southern econo
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You have my word.
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We will be united on it.
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- What do think so far?
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- I don't know about you but I d
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see how they'll ever agree on an
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- We better go in.
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(man grunting)
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Let go!
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This isn't fair!
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- We're members of the press!
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Mr. Madison, how are we supposed
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cover the convention for our new
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if we can't go inside?
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- I believe in the free press,
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but to succeed in our goals,
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each delegate must know he can c
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his mind without public embarras
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Besides, I'll keep my own
notes for the historians.
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- I'm sorry but James Madison is
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The delegates need to be
left alone to do their work,
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but I know if I tell you what's
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you'd never write anything you s
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- Not in a million years.
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- So what did happen today?
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- Edmond Randolph of Virginia in
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a plan to scrap the
Articles of Confederation
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and create a whole new form of g
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Madison and Washington
are the ones behind it.
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They wanna create a government
made up of three branches.
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First and foremost, the
new Congress would be
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made of two houses which Madison
calls an uprun of for one.
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They'll be an executive branch h
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some sort of president
and a judicial branch,
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a kind of Supreme Court made up
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judges who can overrule state co
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It's a system of checks and bala
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to make sure no branch
can dominate any other.
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That way we'll be protected from
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tyranny of the monarchy and of t
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- Hold on.
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I understand about the
president and Supreme Court,
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but how many representatives wil
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each state send to this new Cong
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- That's the catch Sara.
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Madison wants to throw out the
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principle of one state, one vote
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and base representation on the
size of a state's population.
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- Won't that give all the power
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to the biggest states like
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania?
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- The small states will never ag
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- Which will tear the country ap
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- I only hope the delegates have
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as much sense as you do
because if they don't,
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it's going to be a long,
hot summer in Philadelphia.
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- Virginia, Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania, New York,
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why shouldn't we in Maryland
have a vote equal to you?
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- Luther, you've been talking
for six hours straight!
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- Oh sit down Luther!
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- Let someone else speak!
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- What?
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I haven't even started!
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(men yelling)
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- Maryland's important too!
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We have strong, good men,
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men who've helped build this nat
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as much as anyone else has and w
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crabs, tons and tons of Maryland
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Gentleman, have you ever
eaten Maryland crabs?
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(man snoring)
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Fresh from the bay, cooked to pe
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with a touch of melted butter,
it's perfection itself.
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(kids yelling)
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- Pennsylvania demands
proportional representation!
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(men yelling)
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- Connecticut demands one vote p
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(men yelling)
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- If you think I'll sign a const
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that takes away my state's
rights, you're plum crazy.
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(man snoring)
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So you Virginians can put that
in your pipes and smoke it.
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- What do you see?
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- Alexander Hamilton's about to
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These guards take their job too
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- Mr. President, if I may.
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- Mr. Pinkney from South
Carolina has the floor.
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- Gentleman, all this talk
of Congress is well and good,
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but unless our southern states a
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guaranteed the continued
existence of slavery,
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we will be bound to oppose this
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new constitution in any form.
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- Thank you Mr. Pinkey.
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We will keep that in mind.
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- What do you see now?
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- They're voting on Madison's pr
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for proportional voting.
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They're deadlocked.
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Uh oh.
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- Absolutely not.
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- Mr. Sherman, can you
tell me what's happening?
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- We've come to a full stop.
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- Full stop, this
convention's falling apart.
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- You two know that you shouldn'
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- I'm sorry Dr. Franklin.
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We just couldn't stay away.
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- We needed to see how things we
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- I'll tell you how they're goin
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While we bicker in there,
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the British still holds
six forts on American soil,
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Spain forbids us from
trading goods to New Orleans,
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Barbary pirates raid our
ships in the Mediterranean
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but we have no navy to stop them
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because Congress has no money wh
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we can't repay our loans
from France and Holland.
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It's not a country, it's a circu
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- Dr. Franklin!
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- My gall stones.
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Afraid I can't walk.
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- I'll get Moses.
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We'll bring your sedan chair.
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- I'll be alright Sara.
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It's the country I'm worried abo
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- Dr. Franklin, I thought
you might like some soup.
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- Thank you Sara.
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Put it on the table there please
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- How are you feeling?
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- Better but stay a moment.
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You're looking very happy today.
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- Oh Dr. Franklin, I'm so happy.
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Mother and I have heard from fat
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He's bought land in upstate New
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He'll be arriving here any day n
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- Splendid.
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You'll go with him to New York?
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- Certainly, but I won't stay fo
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There's so much I want to do.
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- You're in the right country fo
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There, all I needed were some st
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lenses for my bifocals and
I can see clearly again.
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Of course!
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- What is it Dr. Franklin?
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- The delegates selected a grand
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to settle the voting
issue once and for all.
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I didn't think I was well
enough to participate
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but now I must attend.
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- But your gall stones.
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- I don't care if they
have to carry me in.
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- Dr. Franklin.
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There.
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- The large states are quite
different from each other.
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They will act on their own
interests, not their size.
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To claim that the large states w
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dominate the small is a false-.
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- Gentleman.
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I have the solution.
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Gently.
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Just as I wear bifocals
with two kinds of lenses,
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we have two houses in our Congre
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that the upper house abide by th
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principle of one state, one vote
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but let the members of the lower
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be elected by proportional vote.
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It would be a house of represent
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- That sounds reasonable.
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- I can live with that.
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- Good idea.
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- Dr. Franklin, you are a genius
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(men yelling)
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- What?
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- In our new government
we'll have a Senate,
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a House of Representatives,
a Supreme Court,
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and a President.
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- A leader who's not a king.
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What kind of president will we h
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- That's one of the issues
that hasn't been settled.
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- Our president should serve for
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- Congress should choose our pre
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- We should have three president
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- We'll settle the matters soon
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- And I dare say we all know who
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will be elected our first presid
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- There's a more pressing issue
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that still must be decided.
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- Whether the new constitution w
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allow my people to be kept in sl
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- It can't do that!
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I mean, will it really?
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- It is an issue that I fear wil
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be decided on the basis
of politics, not morality.
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- In order to have our fair shar
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of representation in Congress,
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we demand that the constitution
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three fifths of a state's slaves
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part of it's population.
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- If Mr. Pinkney says slaves
are nothing more than property,
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why not let Massachusetts count
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and cattle as part of our popula
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- Slavery will bring the
judgment of heaven upon us.
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- Does not the honorable Mr.
Mason own slaves himself?
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Gentleman, if slavery is
abolished by this convention,
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Georgia, North Carolina,
and South Carolina
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will not be parties to this unio
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(men booing and arguing)
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- You're up late.
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- Are you alright Dr. Franklin?
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- Fine, just couldn't sleep.
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- Me neither.
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- Moses, you know what I think
of the practice of slavery.
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I despise it with every bone in
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- It's not going to be abolished
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the new constitution, is it?
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- I'm sorry Moses.
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The delegates have reached an od
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compromise between the north and
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It was the only way to save the
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- How long will this union last?
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A country that keeps so many
of its people in bondage.
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I'm a peace loving man Ben and I
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afraid of the price we might hav
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to win freedom for everyone.
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- I am too my friend.
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We've fought one war for liberty
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I hope we won't have to fight an
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- You might as well know,
I'll be leaving here soon.
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I'm moving forward with my plans
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to open a school for free negro
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- That's a school I'd like to su
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- I appreciate that Dr. Franklin
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but I've saved my own money for
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just like I did when I bought my
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- I understand.
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Well governor Morris is reworkin
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language of the constitution.
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All that remains is to sign it
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and send it to the states
for their approval.
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Goodnight Moses.
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- Goodnight Dr. Franklin.
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- See that sun on general
Washington's chair?
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I've sat here since May asking m
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if that sun is setting or if it
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Today I have the happiness of kn
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that it is indeed a rising sun.
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We the people of the United Stat
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in order to form a more perfect
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to establish justice,
promote the general welfare,
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and to secure the blessings of l
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to ourselves and our posterity,
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to ordain and establish
this constitution for
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the United States of America.
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(crowd cheering)
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- I solemnly swear that I will
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faithfully execute the office of
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the president of the United Stat
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and will to the best of my abili
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preserve, protect, and defend th
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constitution of the United State
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So help me God.
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- It is done!
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Long live George Washington,
president of the United States!
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(crowd cheers)
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(bells ring)
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- We did it, though I must confe
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were times I nearly lost hope.
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- Do you think this government
will last Dr. Franklin?
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- It will as long as
the people want it to.
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- There are going to be
some hard challenges ahead.
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- I'm afraid you're right Moses.
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Nothing man does is perfect but,
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all in all the world has
never seen anything like it.
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- I still can't believe it.
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George Washington,
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president of the United States o
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- Father of his country.
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- Suddenly, anything seems possi
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- As long as we stay united.
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- United we stand, divided
we fall but remember,
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the constitution doesn't
guarantee happiness,
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only the pursuit of it.
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(bells ring)
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You have to catch up with it you
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♪ Looking at life through my own
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♪ I'm searching for a hero to id
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♪ Feeling the pain as innocence
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♪ Looking at life with my own ey
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♪ I take my heart into battle ♪
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♪ Give that freedom bell a rattl
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♪ Get my independence signed ♪
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♪ Declare it on the dotted line
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♪ Red, white and blue never give
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♪ You represent America ♪
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- [Kids] Cookie jar!
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(kids giggling)
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