“When Elizabeth Willing Powel, a prominent activist during the early days of our country, asked Benjamin Franklin, as he was leaving Independence Hall on September 17, 1787, at the close of the Constitutional Convention, “Well, Doctor, what have we got — a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin famously answered, “A republic, if you can keep it.” That exchange was recorded in the notes of James McHenry, a Maryland delegate outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, that very day. “A Republic, if you can keep it.” You think we can keep our republic? It’s going to take you, Mr. and Mrs. America, fighting for it and voting big time in this midterm election.”
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