CONCLUSION
Being Global: A Beginning
At the end of the Revolutionary War, America's founding fathers gathered in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to hash out the political future of the new nation. Would the old-world tradition of divine right prevail? Would George Washington be crowned king? Or would a modern representative democracy emerge? Would America be the first democratic republic in centuries? Among the crowd awaiting the answer was Dr. James McHenry of Maryland. As the delegates emerged from their Independence Hall deliberations, McHenry cornered an exhausted Benjamin Franklin and asked him, “Well, Doctor Franklin, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?” Franklin responded with now immortal words, “You have a republic … if ...
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