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Maintain the Republic.

Maintain the republic.

Quorum original

Maintain the Republic., Quorum

Civic maintenance.

"Maintain" is a maintenance word, the language of upkeep, of keeping a working thing working. Applied to a republic, it reframes citizenship as ongoing care rather than occasional rescue.

Why it answers Franklin.

Franklin said a republic, if you can keep it. "Maintain the Republic" is the Show Up lens's answer: here is how you keep it, by maintaining it, steadily, in the unglamorous present tense. It is a Quorum original built as that reply.

How we set it.

Archivo Narrow declarative, "Republic" carried into the Fraunces italic, Honest Gold ground. The accent on the thing being maintained.