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Who said 'We have founded for you a republic if you can keep it'?
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"At the close of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on September 18, 1787, a Mrs. Powel anxiously awaited the results, and as Benjamin Franklin emerged from the long task now finished, asked him directly: "Well Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" "A republic if you can keep it" responded Franklin." http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2000/cr020200.htm
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Benjamin Franklin
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