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How Kids Can Rescue Civics Education

When the Constitution was finally signed in 1787 and the men who wrote it emerged from Independence Hall, a Philadelphia woman supposedly asked Benjamin Franklin what kind of government America would now have. Franklin’s response? “A republ

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How Kids Can Rescue Civics Education
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When the Constitution was finally signed in 1787 and the men who wrote it emerged from Independence Hall, a Philadelphia woman supposedly asked Benjamin Franklin what kind of government America would now have. Franklin’s response? “A republic, if you can keep it.” The key word in Franklin’s challenge was you.

He was 81 at the ...

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