There’s an old story that Benjamin Franklin was approached after exiting the Constitutional Convention, and he was asked what sort of a government they had created. His response was, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
Virtually everyone who learned anything from their middle school/junior high school government class learned that we are a Constitutional Republic, although now I wonder if everyone is actually taught this anymore.
Here’s what it says in the Constitution . Article IV, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence. Now, that doesn’t mean “Republican” in the party sense, but in the government sense.
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‘Benjamin Franklin was approached after exiting the Constitutional Convention, and he was asked what sort of a government they had created. His response was, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
Ben Franklin was a very special man at a very special time…sometimes I wonder what he would say and do if he just walked into a Joint Congressional Session today and watched all the manure being spouted out of the men and woman that are elected to serve the Citizens of our Republic…what would Ben say to Omar…to Schumer…and the rest of the Jihad Squad…to Pelosi…and the RINO’s…
Ben Franklin who appears to be a man that pretty much of the time was not a man without words might say something like this…’shame…shame…shame on you all…I gave my best and my fellow Founding Fathers did also to what means…?…so that you could destroy our nation with unbearable debt…fight wars that have no end…smother patriotic citizens with tax levies that have no relief…lie, cheat and steal everything you can including elections…shame…shame…shame on all of you !’…(and he would be right)
(just my opinion)