Fight for Our Liberty Like It's 1787

The Press & the Pols Tried to Silence Dissidents Then. Don't Let Them Now.

Benjamin Franklin, the oldest delegate at the Constitutional Convention in that sweltering summer in Philadelphia in 1787, was asked by a woman afterward what the founders had chosen for the new nation’s governance. His reply may have been apocryphal but it is so telling it is still taught: “A Republic, madam, if you can keep it.”

I have been thinking mu…