...and therefore every state hath a right to discourage possession of such property". Bracing, isn't it? It might be guilt by association. Franklin was President at the radical-dominated Pennsylvania Provincial Convention of 1776, where it barely missed being put into the new Pennsylvania Constitution ( President was at this time not a kind of executive, directing it- it meant he presided, was chairman). But I can't find a specific attribution: maybe somebody here has tracked it down. Far more likely was somebody who'd been listening to closely to Thomas Paine.