This is getting out of control.

This treatise is only aimed at those who are not aware how all-important civic duty is to our constitutional republic--and even then it is only meant to inspire not insult. Please do not take what follows personally.

At the close of the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787, as Benjamin Franklin left the hall in Philadelphia, he was asked, “What kind of government have you given us, Dr. Franklin?” He replied: "A republic, if you can keep it."

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