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| "Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents 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." |
| -- James Madison (Farrand's Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, 17 September 1787) |
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