Last year, around this time, we wrote a column about Constitution Day, celebrated annually on Sept. 17. In it, we discussed Ben Franklin’s speech on that date before the 39 delegates who signed it. As Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch writes in his book, “A Republic, If You Can Keep It,” Franklin is reported to have answered with that statement when asked upon leaving the Constitutional Convention what kind of government the delegates had created.Gorsuch’s bookThe book, co-authored with two of …