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Campaigning to Restore the Constitution

Two hundred and twenty-one years ago this week, the Constitutional Convention that had gathered in the touchstone city of Philadelphia to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more clearly drawn guiding document for their revolutionary experiment agreed finally on a framework to govern the new United States.

In so doing, Benjamin Franklin suggested, the framers established a republican framework sturdy enough to outlast them - if, Franklin warned, ensuing generations of Americans could keep faith with the Constitution.

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