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Originally Posted by Mattyk72
Another can you imagine scenario:
If our founding fathers could see us today what do you think they would say?
Something tells me they would think we are idiots with the way we cling so literally to the Constitution that was written for a completely different time.
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I believe they would think we are wimps, and not true patriots. Most people don't care about government infringement as long as they have their Mercedes and Starbucks.
At the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when queried as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation, a lady asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy?"
Franklin replied, "A Republic, if you can keep it."