Keeping the Republic
It took almost two centuries of tyranny, war and suffering for our ancestors, desperate for liberty and self-determination, to conceive of and draft our system of constitutional government that has endured for 237 years.
They met in Philadelphia in the sweltering heat of the summer of 1787 to design and hopefully agree upon a form of government their ancestors had never known. There was little assurance that would happen, but after listening to each other in good faith and debating for 89 days they created the Constitution of the United States of America giving birth to the longest functioning democracy in human history.
From the beginning of their deliberations, it was the resolute belief of the Founders that our consensual union would not survive, the Constitution would not function, and our republic would not endure, unless the people and their elected leaders believed in and adopted the civic virtues embedded in the Constitution. Only if the eternal objective of the Constitution remained to seek the public good would our hallowed union survive.
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