Forgotten Foundation: The Story of Small Things Grow Great by Concord
By: Michael Boldin How do you beat the biggest government in history? The founders did it, but they knew there’s no silver bullet. The path to liberty isn’t flashy. It’s ...
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The Pen, the Phone, and the Presidency: A Roman Warning Against the Rise of the American Caesar
By: Joe Wolverton, II In the fading light of the Roman Republic, as senators dithered and people cried out for relief from chaos, an ambitious few found the imperial mantle ...
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The Influence of Machiavelli on the Founding Fathers of the United States
By: Joe Wolverton, II When discussing the intellectual influences on the Founding Fathers of the United States, one typically hears names such as Locke, Montesquieu, and Blackstone. However, one influential ...
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The ideas that formed the Constitution: Tacitus
By: Rob Natelson The authors discussed in this series impacted the Constitution both directly and indirectly. Citations to the authors by participants in the constitutional debates of 1787–1790 are evidence of ...
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The ideas that formed the Constitution: 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 Virgil ...
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The ideas that formed the Constitution: Virgil and other poets
By: Rob Natelson Answering Questions About This Series Some questions have arisen on this series, which I think best to clear up now. First: As the series title indicates, these essays ...
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The ideas that formed the Constitution: 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 lived ...
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