Wednesday is Constitution Day , the date on which that venerable document was signed by the delegates to the convention that drafted it. In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, it’s worth asking ourselves whether we are still capable of keeping the republic it created.

The United States was the first nation in the history of the world to attempt to govern an extended territory via republican self-government. This mode of rule that seems so normal to us today was, in fact, a radical experiment. A betting man back in 1787 would have been forgiven if he had bet heavily on its failure.

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