The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CXXXVI

by Max Farrand

ⅭⅩⅩⅩⅥ. Benjamin Franklin to Mr Grand.^[1]

Philada. Oct. 22 — 87.

I send you enclos’d the propos’d new Federal Constitution for these States. I was engag’d 4 Months of the last Summer in the Convention that form’d it. It is now sent by Congress to the several States for their Confirmation. If it succeeds, I do not see why you might not in Europe carry the Project of good Henry the 4th into Execution, by forming a Federal Union and One Grand Republick of all its different States & Kingdoms; by means of a like Convention; for we had many Interests to reconcile.

1. Documentary History of the Constitution, Ⅳ, 341–342.