# Tennessee Fails to Execute the Execution of Christa Pike. Twice

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> [@Ancient\_Nerd](#):
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> Ben Franklin said
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> “We must all hang together or we shall most assurededly all hang separately.”

**John Dickinson** : Mr. Jefferson, are you seriously suggesting that we publish a paper declaring to all the world that an illegal rebellion is, in reality, a legal one?

**Benjamin Franklin** : Oh, Mr. Dickinson, I’m surprised at you. You should know that rebellion is always legal in the first person, such as “our rebellion.” It is only in the third person - “their rebellion” - that it is illegal.

— _1776_

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