brother Ben of course was from Pennsylvania and he was the oldest of all the delegates there brother Ben tried often to Foster compromise during the Constitutional Convention Legend has it that at one point tempers had flared and there was a lot of arguing going on and in the midst of shouting over policies wise old brother Ben stood and asked for a moment of prayer and he was gaveled down and pretty much told to hush so I guess politics have always been kind of the same later on Ben actually put forward a formal motion to start
off each day of each session with a prayer the delegates never voted on it they just left it on the table and didn't do anything with Franklin's motion like Washington Franklin's Masonic career is well established and well documented he was a member of St John's Lodge and a past Grandmaster of Pennsylvania David brle David brle was a lawyer from New Jersey
