franklin and the freedom of the seas

Franklin and the freedom of the seas

After being struck by lightning, Franklin is obsessed by the freedom of the seas. He believes the concept is a joke. Unworkable. "It violates the laws of nature", Franklin says to his French concubine. "Do big fish protect small fish? No, of course not. They eat them".

Against insurmountable odds, Franklin perseveres and succeeds in creating the international waters that we know and love. Territorial limits, board and search, Pearl Harbor, Leon Klinghoffer, the Panama canal. For all this, and more, we owe a great debt to a great man.

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