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At the closing banquet celebrating the Constitutional Convention of 1787, a Philadelphia matron rushed to the side of the convention's most senior member and gushed, "O Mister Franklin, what have you gentlemen wrought?" The 81-year-old Franklin is said to have paused, adjusted his glasses and solemnly replied, "A republic madam; if you can keep it"

America's founding has been called the "great experiment" in human government because it was an experiment in self-government. Authority would reside, not with a monarchy, oligarchy or centralized government, but with the people. According to the founding documents, it was to be a government designed to "serve" the people who have unalienable rights from God