Franklin was walking out of Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when someone shouted out, “Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?”
To which Franklin supposedly responded, with a rejoinder at once witty and ominous: “A republic, if you can keep it.”
I taught my sons and their friends about the difference between a Democracy and a Republic.
I used the two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat story.
I also ask my Congressman Jody Hice to send me copies of the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution so that I can hand them out to individuals who do not comprehend the concept of our government.
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