Ralph Benko

Keeping our Republic

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“"Keeping Our Republic is an essential work, published at a moment of high political peril. It is thrilling to read. Thomas Paine's Common Sense, which precipitated the American Revolution, had two elements. First, an indictment and demonstration of the moral indefensibility of monarchy. Second, a clear, compelling, and practical statement of axioms with which the colonies could, with high confidence, claim and establish Independence and create republican governance, our most fundamental constitutional right. Angelo Codevilla has replicated the first part of Paine's accomplishment on behalf of the new American Revolution with his irrefutable indictment of our new self-made 'political nobility' in The Ruling Class. Parks and Corbin here provide the second, equally essential, component, laying out lucidly and compellingly the axioms by which we can restore America to its 'small r' republican roots: Equality; Responsibility; Honor; Justice; Lawfulness; Prudence. The Ruling Class and Keeping Our Republic, taken together, are Common Sense of the new American Revolution. Buy copies for every conservative you know. They will thank you and, for helping to ordain the blessings of liberty at this critical time, so will America's posterity!”