If an assembly could possibly be so absurd, as to refuse raising the supplies requisite for the maintenance of government among them, they could not long remain in such a situation; the disorders and confusion occasioned by it must soon bring them to reason.
Franklin warns that if an assembly absurdly refuses to fund government, chaos would force them to comply.
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