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The origin of this particular line of rhetoric? c. 1787: > "A republic, if you can keep it." - Benjamin Franklin's response to Elizabeth Willing Powel's questi
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The origin of this particular line of rhetoric? c. 1787:
> "A republic, if you can keep it." - Benjamin Franklin's response to Elizabeth Willing Powel's question: "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"