Topic: holidays
Wednesday is the 221st anniversary of the day 42 guys came out of Independence Hall with 4 sheets of parchment signed by 39 of them. It was the framework for the fledgling United States government, the Constitution. When asked what kind of government the convention produced, Ben Franklin replied, "A Republic, if you can keep it."
Today it seems as though we are doing a horrible job of "keeping it". Repeatedly, the Bush administration has overstepped its bounds, only to be met with firm deriliction of duty from Congress. Checks and balances no more! Both parties conspire against the American people in a power grab. Each looks the other way while the public is slowly but surely being enslaved.
Read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The more people who know their rights, the harder it is to take those rights away.
