Benjamin Franklin on Freedom –The Federalist Papers
(Patriotic Moms) As Benjamin Franklin left the Constitutional Convention a Woman asked him, “Sir, what have you given us?”
Franklin immediately replied, “A Republic Ma’am if you can keep it.”
Yet many Americans today have come to believe America’s governmental system is a Democracy and not a Republic.
The difference between these two is essential in understanding the values of the United States.
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