text:  And a prominent woman approached Benjamin Franklin and said, Dr. Franklin, what kind of government have you given us? And he replied and said, we have given you a republic, which meant freedom. We have given you a republic if you can keep it. He said that, that was called the Franklin Challenge. He said that because he knew that every previous government that had involved people, whether it was the democracy with the Greeks or the republic with the Romans, didn't last.