For when you assemble a number of men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views.
Franklin warns that assembling a group of people for collective wisdom also brings their biases and errors into the decision-making process.
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We are restrained in our trade with foreign nations; and where we could be supplied with any manufacture cheaper from them, but must buy the same dearer from Britain, the difference of price is a clear tax to Britain.
That the colonies have no representatives in parliament.
Public spirit really exists there, and has great effects.
Believing therefore, that it is my duty, I shall honestly speak my mind in the following paper.
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