en-us http://www.intensedebate.com/users/592943 Comments by eggy1943 http://blog.populistamerica.com/2009/06/i-thomas-paine-two-hundred-years-hence/#IDComment25881945 My good friend Benjamin Franklin did his best to warn us. In response to being asked at the close of the Constitutional Convention, ‘Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?’, Dr. Franklin said, simply, ‘A Republic, if you can keep it.’ A prescient warning, indeed. But how to keep it? Franklin, a lover of Liberty admits the republican form of government but does not eliminate democracy from it. For our constitution claims Of, By, and For the People. This is a declaration of Democracy if there ever was one. Democracy is not the congressionally empowered, President led [king and his men] government we have given our power to. No the people must form an Assembly and utilizing our Democratic Power, tell congress and the administrator president just what they can and cannot do. Yes we can. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:25:10 +0000 http://blog.populistamerica.com/2009/06/i-thomas-paine-two-hundred-years-hence/#IDComment25881945