Ben Franklin made this warning. His book, Increase of Mankind (1751), shows how rising numbers undermine wages. His last speech to the U.S. Constitutional Convention closed the argument. Constitutional government, he said, "is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism...when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other."

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