Was Benjamin Franklin's Speech Effective

Everyone can make a speech and be able to convince people to think or say something but, they also have some things in their speech that aren't effective, even Benjamin Franklin himself. Ben Franklin made a speech that was very effective to make us believe that the Constitution at the time still needed to be worked on because it wasn't perfection. In some ways his speech was also ineffective.

Ben Franklin’s speech was effective in many ways. One example would be that even Ben Franklin was willing to change his opinion of the Constitution for the better of the people. He said that the older he got, the more he was likely to doubt his own judgement of other people. Franklin wanted the best of the best, so he didn’t ever settle for anything that was
One of the reasons it was ineffective was that many of the people weren’t coming together to make the Constitution better. “I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain may be able to make a better Constitution; for, when you assemble a number of men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views.” The speech was also difficult to understand because the vocabulary wasn’t that that we use everyday. Since, it wasn’t a piece of cake to understand, then it wasn’t as attention grabbing as it would have been if it were easier to read.

In conclusion, there were many effective and ineffective parts of the speech that convinced us that the Constitution still needed to be worked on. You can see the things that I think are ineffective as effective and the effective as ineffective, so it all depends on how you look at it. Did the speech convince you that the Constitution was still mediocre and amateurishly made, so it needed to be fixed? Remember that it’s all in the way you look at