DEAR RUSSIAN TROLLS:
OUR FOUNDING DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN COPIED BY OTHERS.
THEY HAVE SUSTAINED THIS NATION SINCE ITS FOUNDING BY
SOME PRETTY SAVVY MEN WHO HAD TRAVELED THE WORLD
OF THEIR DAY AND CAREFULLY PROTECTED THIS NATION
FROM TYRANNY AND THEOCRACY. .
IN THOSE DOCUMENTS, THEY INCLUDED 'AMENDMENTS' THE FIRST
OF WHICH IS:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
THE WORDS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ARE PROPHETIC:
In the summer of 1787, a crowd gathered around Independence Hall to learn what type of government their representatives had formed for the new nation. When Benjamin Franklin walked out of the Constitutional Convention, Mrs Powel could wait no longer. Franklin was one of the best known of the "Framers" working on the new US Constitution. Powel ran up to Franklin and asked, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" Franklin turned to her and said what are perhaps the most chilling words uttered by any Framer. He said, "A republic, Madam, if you can keep it."
Franklin's words were more than a boast. They were a warning. The curious thing about a democratic system is that it contains the seeds of its own demise. Freedom is not something guaranteed by any parchment or promise. It is earned by each generation which must jealously protect it from threats, not only from outside, but from within a nation.
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