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Article: FRANKLIN LAID FOUNDATION.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- July 19, 1987
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Byline: Craig Brandon Staff writer
In this year of the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, most of the attention is focused on Philadelphia, where the document was drawn up in 1787.
But the story of how the 13 colonies organized into a central government began 33 years before in an out-of-the- way trading post called Albany.
In 1754, Benjamin Franklin, then a provincial assemblyman from Pennsylvania, came to a colonial conference in Albany and presented the first plan for the unification of the colonies under a central government.
It was the first time that anyone had suggested an American "president" as a leader of the colonies ...