Gunpowder Chronicle posted on June 26, 2007 9:55 PM | Rating:

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At the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, a Mrs. Powell of Philadelphia asked of Dr. Ben Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
Dr. Franklin replied verbosely, "A republic, if you can keep it"
Today, we have lost it, as "the world's most deliberative body", conspiring with a White House desperate for a legacy that doesn't involve Iraq, has abdicated its role as the "saucer that cools the cup" and sends the nation careening into a shamnesty nightmare of epic proportions with the full power to devolve American culture and forever strip us of our unique identity as a "shining city on a hill".
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