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"'The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States.'
 
In an era of monarchy, at a time when even some Americans were pushing for our leaders to be selected for life, our Founders made a revolutionary choice: they created a government that was bound, every two years, to listen to the people’s verdict. That accountability has been a great source of our strength.
 
But it has also been the source of our greatest test as a people. No form of government is more demanding than ours. That’s why Benjamin Franklin called our government 'a republicâ€"if you can keep it.' The behaviors that keep a republic are the civic virtues. Sacrifice, self-discipline, self-restraint: they are the virtues that tie neighbors into a community, and communities into a nation. They are the virtues that temper partisan warfare and call us to look further into the future than the next two years.

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