Use this excerpt to answer the question. ". . . Doctor Franklin, looking towards the President's 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 sun from a setting sun. 'I have,' said he, 'often and often in the course of the Session . . . looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun."—Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, James MadisonWhich of the following best summarizes Franklin's thoughts on the future of the new United States?

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