by David Michael Green, Published on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
This is it, folks. This is the scenario our Founders lost sleep over. This is the day they prepared us for.
Outside
the Philadelphia convention Benjamin Franklin was asked what sort of
government he and his colleagues were crafting. His reply? ‘A republic.
If you can keep it.’ And that is just the question at issue today. Can
we keep it? [more]