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What Ben Franklin can teach us about aging politicians
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At the close of the convention, with its outcome still in doubt, Franklin delivered an impassioned plea for something rarely celebrated today: doubt. Franklin doubted whether the Constitution drafted over the preceding few months was the best version possible, but he was going to sign it anyway: “For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being oblig’d, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.” The older he grew, Franklin continued, the more likely he was to question his own judgment and to “pay more Respect to the Judgment of others.”