Ben Franklin believed a republic needed citizens. rich

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Ben Franklin believed a republic needed virtuous citizens.

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Benjamin Franklin was an American politician and scientist born in Boston in 1706, being considered one of the Founding Fathers of the nation and the main promoter of the Enlightenment in the American territory. He was a fervent believer in the concept of democracy and in the ability of peoples to govern themselves, through the election of representatives.

Through his political activism, for which he did not access to great positions in the federal government, but to positions of political and social leadership, he opposed authoritarianism and promoted education and innovation in American society, guided by his conviction that the more educated a society was, the better the decisions it would make to govern its destinies.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion