DOCUMENT: CLS-REBUILD · CLASSIFICATION: PUBLIC METHODOLOGY: SYMMETRIC · STATUS: ACTIVE
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The Seat

What the office demands, from those who defined it.

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Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr Franklin looking towards the President’s Chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that Painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising from a setting sun.

“But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.”

James Madison, notes of the Federal Convention, Monday, September 17, 1787.

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Read this first Extrapolation from the historical record, not the words of the founder.
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