The Upside-Down Constitution and Its Critics
by Michael S. Greve In revisiting The Upside-Down Constitution ten years after I put that baby to bed, I am violating time-honored principles of sensible authorial conduct. One, as a great Dane ...
Read more.Cicero on the State, Property, and Invasion
Sounding like John Locke and Frederic Bastiat by Marcus Tullius Cicero Cicero, De Officiis (published 44 BC): The man in an administrative office… must make it his first care that every one ...
Read more.The Ideas That Formed the Constitution, Part 10: Virgil Alone
by Rob Natelson The previous (ninth) essay in this series identified three Roman poets quoted by participants in the constitutional debates of 1787–1790—Ovid, Horace, and Virgil. The essay explained why ...
Read more.The Ideas That Formed the Constitution, Part 9: Virgil and Other Poets
by Rob Natelson Ovid, Horace, and Virgil As noted in the second installment, the reverse side of the dollar bill reproduces the Great Seal of the United States. On the ...
Read more.Cato’s Letters Explained “the Glorious Principles of Liberty” to the American Founders
by Dan Sanchez In the twilight of his life, John Adams reflected on the American Revolution in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, writing: “What do We mean by the Revolution? ...
Read more.Ideas That Formed the Constitution, Part 8: Cicero
By: Rob Natelson The previous installment in this series outlined the life and career of the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero. It described how John Adams relied on Cicero’s work in the ...
Read more.The Ideas That Formed the Constitution, Part 7: Cicero
By: Rob Natelson The first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth essays in this series addressed the influence on the Constitution of four leading Greek thinkers. There is one more Greek on our list, the biographer Plutarch. He ...
Read more.Liberty Needs a Self-Study Movement
We each must first put our own house of ideas in order by Dan Sanchez The liberty movement is not prevailing because it has primarily been a political movement. To ...
Read more.Omnibus Shows Congress’s Priorities: Authoritarianism and War
By: Ron Paul Those hoping for a Christmastime government shutdown were once again disappointed when Congress passed a 4,000-page, $1.7 trillion omnibus appropriations bill that few, if any, Representatives and Senators ...
Read more.Federal Farmer: Representation Isn’t Sufficient
By: TJ Martinell When it was ratified, the U.S. Constitution set a cap on the number of representatives at no more than one per 30,000 persons. In his seventh letter dated Dec. ...
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