Reclaiming the Republic
Celebrating the Freedom-Loving Slaves, Libertarian-Loving Dissidents and Raisin Farmers Who Made the Republic Once, and Whose Principles Might Rescue It Now
Famously, or maybe apocryphally, Benjamin Franklin emerged from the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia to encounter a female citizen curious about what kind of government the Founders had agreed on.
“A republic,” he replied, “if you can keep it.”
These days, I wonder if we can.
I have been reading Victor Davis Hanson’s new book, The Dying Citi…
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