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"We’re living in the Fourth American Republic. Those who speak of conserving the work of “the founding fathers” or “the American experiment” are living in a republic of the imagination alone. Many conservatives like to quote Benjamin Franklin who, upon exiting the 1787 constitution convention allegedly said that the convention had created “a republic, if you can keep it.” Well, they didn’t “keep it.” It disappeared in the nineteenth century, and what we have today is something else altogether" (emphasis added). https://mises.org/mises-wire/we-are-living-fourth-american-republic#:~:text=We%E2%80%99re%20living%20in,something%20else%20altogether The US #GovtIsTheProblem

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