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A Nation of Men, Not Laws

By Andy Caldwell

Jul 19, 2026
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I, for one, am still celebrating our nation’s 250th birthday. I recently wrote about Benjamin Franklin’s answer to the question of what kind of government were we going to have, to which he replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.”

Of course, the basic principle of our Constitution posits that we are not solely governed by the majority as in a purely de…

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