On the immortal second of July, 1776, the vote of Pennsylvania was recorded against the Declaration.  The delegation from the Keystone State was made up of James Wilson, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, Charles Humphreys, John Dickinson, Thomas Willing and John Morton.  The report was postponed  until July fourth.  It was a rainy day, and Morris and Dickinson were absent; some say the former, who was an enthusiast, had detained the latter, who was always timid and hesitating.  Be that so it may, Wilson, Franklin and Morton voted affirmatively and Humphreys and Willings, to their shame, in the negative.  The day was saved and Pennsylvania ratified.  James Wilson was selected for this purpose.  Studying law in the office of this very Dickinson with who he was associated to his honor on the Pennsylvania delegation, Wilson early marked himself an opponent of tyranny and an advocate of liberty.  His name slandered and his life threatened for the act that gave him immortality, he was honored in later life by being raised to the United States Supreme Court.  He helped draft the Federal Constitution.