“A republic, Madam, if you can keep it” — Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia, 1787, when asked what the Constitutional Convention had proposedThe question that Franklin answered 233 years ago overshadows every other issue in the presidential election. It is why we recommend, with enthusiasm and a sense of urgency, that voters elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to be the president and vice president of the United States. In so doing, the American people will answer whether our representative democracy, under the rule of law, is still worth keeping.That is the overarching question, which makes this …