The real agents, the most important actors in the nation’s history, were, and are, the “you.” You have a task, which is to keep it. And what you are to keep is a republic, which is what the American Revolution was fought to establish, and which is opposed to what the colonies fought against: a monarchy, headed by a king, who could not be removed from office, and who could rule as a tyrant. From the Declaration of Independence: “The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny
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