250 Years Later: Can We Still Keep the Republic?

In a few weeks, America will celebrate its 250th birthday-two hundred and fifty years since the Declaration of Independence. A small group of men pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to create something new: a constitutional republic built on individual liberty, equal justice under law, and the principle that no king, church, or foreign power stands above the Constitution. The Founders never envisioned this as America turns 250!

Whether born of extraordinary wisdom, divine providence, or both, the Constitution is the oldest continuously operating written national constitution in the world. Most constitutions last less than twenty years. Ours has endured for nearly two and a half centuries and inspired nations everywhere.
Yet in 2026 we are still debating whether states must pass laws to prevent Sharia law from overriding constitutional rights.

How did we reach this point?

States like Alabama, Tennessee, Kansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Arizona, and others have enacted measures to block foreign or religious legal systems from superseding the Constitution. Texas continues that fight today.

The reason is straightforward. Americans see what politicians, media, and activists deny: demands for special treatment, pressure campaigns, double standards, and the clear lessons from Europe. They understand that constitutional government endures only when a people confidently defend their own values.

Look at New York City. It lost nearly 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001, and promised to Never Forget. Today, amplified Islamic calls to prayer echo across neighborhoods during Ramadan with official approval. Thousands gather for public prayer in Times Square. Organized Quran distributions occur in one of America’s most iconic spaces.

There’s at least another dozen Democratic Socialists running for office, with half being Muslim. Who would have thought the mayor of New York City would be both? The Founders didn’t oppose diversity of people or even thought. Debate was seen as healthy, as was compromise. But we were given a Republic, as one famously put it, if we can keep it. I do not believe for a New York minute the Founders envisioned the United States being where we are today.

Meanwhile, the city has elevated Zohran Mamdani to the mayor’s office. The real question is why any discussion of Islam’s growing role in public life is treated as off-limits. Citizens who raise concerns are branded intolerant, and the conversation itself becomes forbidden.