...henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in the Assembly every morning before we proceed to business,...this city be requested to officiate in that service." It was done as he suggested and the Declaration of Independence passed. The men and women who planted...

...Assistance of Heaven, and its Blessing on our Deliherations, he held in this Assemhly every Morning hefore we proceed to Business; and that one or more of the Clergy of this City he requested to officiate in that Service.' Speech in the Comention at the Couclusion of its Deliberations...

...assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning we proceed to business, and that one or more of the clergy in this city be requested to officiate in that service. 4 Benjamin Weiss, apologist for the American...

...Franklin's) seconded, "that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every...this City be requested to officiate in that service" (I, 452). Claims about the Effect of This Speech A letter that William Steele wrote to his son in 1825...

...therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every...this City be requested to officiate in that Service." Roger Sherman Connecticut, treating Franklin's statement as a motion, seconded it. Alexander Hamilton...

...therefore beg leave to move—that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every...this city be requested to officiate in that service. Benjamin Franklin, The Constitutional Convention, June 28, 1787 5 And can the liberties of a nation...

...of lights to illuminate our understandings I therefore beg leave to move — that henceforth prayer imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing...Assembly every morning before we proceed to business." It is certainly worth emphasizing that it was Franklin, a man famous for almost everything but his...

...heaven and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in that assembly every morning before we proceeded to business; and that one or more of the clergy of...this city be requested to officiate in that service. Unfortunately, the convention, except three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary!! We continued...

...therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business. Benjamin Franklin, speech, Federal Constitutional Convention, June 28, 1787. Max Farrand, ed., The...

...Wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest. imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every...Clergy of this City be requested to officiate in that service.1 According to James Madison's records of the Convention, the following is what occurred after...