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KEEPING THE REPUBLIC: HOW I’LL BE OBSERVING THIS INDEPENDENCE DAY

July 3rd, 2020 by Adam Arbogast

This post was written by VVMF President and CEO Jim Knotts There’s a famous story — apocryphal, maybe — about the birth of the U.S. Constitution. As Benjamin Franklin was leaving Independence Hall after the 1787 Constitutional Convention, someone asked him what kind of government had been designed by the framers. “A republic,” Franklin replied, […]

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