Keeping the republic

By: 
Robert Pitts, Florida Real Estate Journal

At the close of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September 1787, an eager Mrs. Powel is said to have approached Benjamin Franklin with the following question:

"Well doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?” she asked.

Franklin responded: "A republic - if you can keep it."

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