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Sunday, November 8, 2026

CORTES: Republic… or Oligarchy?

At the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, when asked what kind of government the Framers had created for our new nation, Benjamin Franklin reportedly responded: “a republic, if you can keep it.”

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