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Cana anyone offer insight into the symbolism of the snake in the 1751 cartoon in which Ben Franklin urged the colonies to unite against the French and the Indians, and which was later used to exhort the colonies to unite in the fight against Great Britain? It shows a snake chopped into eight parts, each one named after a colony, over the slogan: "Join, or die." An image of the woodcut appears in the illustrations following page 158 of R.B. Bernstein's Founding Fathers Reconsidered. Carla Spivack, J.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Law Oklahoma City University School of Law ph: (405) 208-5370
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