Franklin’s Militia

Benjamin Franklin and Quaker have a very different ideological position in forming a militia. This disagreement shows us confrontation in their "psychological world". Ben Franklin 's efforts to promote militia reversed Quaker' s moral authority, so that they withdrew from the public. Quakers were unable to separate their religious doctrines from secular essentials and some of their principal contradictions forced them to leave office with the passage of time. Quakers also can not be consistent within their own community, some of them believe in defensive warfare, but others are not.

Generally it is resistant. 29 When asked about the number of militias that can receive weapons and disciplinary action within the United States, Franklin opposed this issue and refused to answer 30. As they are not under state supervision, militia volunteer militia units. As early as 1747, Frank had advocated such an arbitrary organization in Pennsylvania 1 Of course, Congress wanted to know how many people could finally use military power to enforce UK taxes It was.

The militia was formed in accordance with the proposal of Benjamin Franklin and the governor asked him to direct the Northwest boundary. Together with his son as an assistant, Franklin traveled to Gnadenhut to collect staff and build fortifications for militia. Returning to Philadelphia, he was elected as a colonel in the regiment; his officer brought him out of the city personally to commemorate him. When someone writes an account in his letter, that crazy anger the colony owner, Thomas Penn (the son of William Penn), and the prophet complained to the British government on Franklin.

Despite this confident tune, Thomas Pain says that Franklin is a "dangerous person" as he encourages volunteer militias to appear in the private defense of the Delaware River i747 I believed it. Independence This view has been integrated within the growing political and military reputation of Franklin. Franklin wrote to Peter Corinthon that the owner noticed him hostile, but he wrote in Peter Corinthon that he does not care too much, "If I hurt their discomfort, "He contributed to London with this spirit.

After the second visit to the UK, when Franklin arrived in Philadelphia on May 5, 1775, the American Revolution began - the battle between settlers of Lexington and Concord and the United Kingdom. The New England militia confined Boston's major British troops. The Pennsylvania State Parliament unanimously elected Franklin as representative of the 2 nd Continental Congress. In June 1776, he was appointed a member of five state committees to draft the Declaration of Independence. He was banned temporarily by gout and could not attend most of the committee meetings but Franklin notes that some "small but significant" changes to the draft Thomas Jefferson sent to him Was added.