Many new students of our form of government seem to think they have a better idea. We should try more direct democracy, or perhaps a modern socialism, or even communism would work better.

I’ve got a consideration for everyone who wonders about this. Our Founding Fathers were so concerned about their new government they made world governments a serious study. They studied Greece, Rome, and even Israel. They knew about Monarchies and dictatorships. James Madison in particular made it a serious study. How do governments operate and how do they eventually work.

For the first time in history, a national government was formed, not by the strongest, or the winner of a war, but by the people themselves. A government by the people and for the people. It’s a republic—as Benjamin Franklin said “if you can keep it.” Why are so many intent on giving it up? America has been the most successful nation in world history. Let’s instead study how it was established, and how we “can keep it!”

IN a Peanuts comic strip, Sally is talking with Snoopy, who is on his doghouse roof. She asks: “You know what, Snoopy?” Then: “I’ll bet when you were a little kid, you never had to worry about ‘new math’ or ‘old math’ or any kind of math.”

Snoopy thinks: “That’s true . . .at the Daisy Hill puppy farm that wasn’t very important . . .

“When all you have to count are the hours to suppertime, it doesn’t matter whether you use ‘old math’ or ‘new math’!

By the same token, look at the honorable and illustrious history of our Constitution, and new or old doesn’t make any difference!