When someone asked Benjamin Franklin what kind of government we were going to have after the constitutional convention, he responded, “A republic if you can keep it.” And, ever since then, forces external and internal to the United States have been trying to take it away. In the modern era, we have struggled externally against the empires of Japan, Germ…
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