Tonight we're going to be looking at and getting our hearts ready for tomorrow and

stealing from history the title of the message tonight is if we can keep it.

You and I listen listen up everybody,

you and I live in a constitutional republic.

Do you know that?

Or have you forgotten that?

There is a word that is permeating the narrative today, and that is the word democracy.

In fact, I don't mean to step on anybody's toes, but this is a fact.

You will never hear certain political persuasions ever mentioned the word constitutional republic.

Did you know that in this nation right now we are a people that are so divided and I'm grateful for the division that there are

those who say we are a democracy and you hear that all the time democracy democracy

because they believe that we have now come to the point of a level of

ignorance that we believe that. When in reality our founding fathers fought to preserve us from a democracy.

Does this surprise you?

We are a constitutional republic unlike any other attempt for man to be governed in all of

human history. And the democracy is something that is either led by mob rule or by majority rule and you're going to hear some of the reasons

why our founding fathers had to be inspired by God to come up with ideas that every state would have the exact same power no matter its population.

You know, New York was greatly populated back then and it was the big bully so to speak of the colonies.

Virginia was extremely wealthy, Massachusetts, very productive and the seat of liberty, but New York had the population.

And if we voted based on population, California and New York would determine the elections every time.

But there's a reason why, and never done before, there's a reason why our nation operates

as it does, and when Ben Franklin was stepping out of the gathering of the Constitutional Convention,

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