Friends,

I love our Constitution. I’ve sworn an oath to protect and defend it many times in my life – when I served in the Navy, at the Justice Department, in the White House, and on January 3 of this year when I began my job as your Congresswoman.

I am proudly and faithfully bound by oath to support our Constitution – not as a Democrat or as a Republican, but as a proud American.

In my job, I carry our Constitution with me everywhere I go. And today, I’m remembering that it was exactly 238 years ago that the drafters of our Constitution finished 115 days of around-the-clock work in Philadelphia. One of the drafters, Dr. Ben Franklin, was asked that day: “Well, Doctor, what have we got – a republic or a monarchy?”  His reply was simple: “A republic … if you can keep it.”

The truths that animate our Constitution are self-evident, but nothing about keeping our republic has ever been inevitable. The only keepers of our Constitution are “We the People” – the first three immortal words of the document. 

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Onward,