Merriam-Webster defines a republic as “a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law.”
In our republic, Democrat activists now aim to eliminate the Senate filibuster, which requires a two-thirds majority to pass most legislation;  to do away with the Electoral College, which allows even the least populated states to have a say in electing the American president; and to “pack” the Supreme Court with additional justices to, in effect, legislate via the judiciary. As I wrote for Independence Day, Americans should heed Benjamin Franklin’s admonition about how precarious republics can be. Franklin is said to have told a woman outside the  Constitutional Convention that delegates had bestowed “a republic, if you can keep it” upon the populace of the young country….