After the Constitutional Convention, A lady asked of Ben Franklin:
"Well Doctor what have we got - a republic or a monarchy?"
"A republic", replied the Doctor, "if you can keep it."
Senator Russell Feingold has introduced a resolution to censure our president for violating the law. The violated law in question, as we all know, is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Harry Truman said that "The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know". Bearing this in mind, what does history tell us about our presidents violation of FISA? Is it a trifling to be ignored? A molehill that Feingold is trying to turn into a mountain? Or is it a dangerous new milestone in the path toward the end of the Republic?
