Their deepest fear was an ignorant citizenry—a public that could be handed liberty and squander it because they lacked the mental tools to defend it. The Founders understood something that gets lost in the monument-and-marble version of history: a republic is not a structure. It’s a practice. And practices die when people forget how to perform them.
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