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...by pleading cases before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania before he was 20. Elected to the provincial assembly in 1756, he occupied the powerful post of speaker from 1766 to 1775. His “A plan of a proposed Union between Great Britain and the Colonies” in 1774 provided for a president general to be appointed by the king and a colonial legislature to have rights and duties...
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