'A Republic if You Can Keep It.' The American Experiment Has Never Been in Greater Danger

<![CDATA[We're all familiar with the story behind this article's headline. It was the last day of the Constitutional Convention, Sept. 18, 1787, when a prominent Philadelphia socialite, Elizabeth Willing Powel, confronted Benjamin Franklin outside of Independence Hall and asked him, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy"?]]>