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Hortensis

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4. The great weakness of Democracy -- the voters.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Dec 6, 2017, 02:28 PM

Dec 2017

Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?”

“A Republic, if you can keep it.” .
ATTRIBUTION: The response is attributed to BENJAMIN FRANKLIN—at the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when queried as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation—in the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Maryland’s delegates to the Convention.

Note that it will not be democracy that fails us. If we vote to do away with government of, by and for the people, it will happen.

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