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The ideas that formed the Constitution: Virgil alone

The ideas that formed the Constitution: Virgil alone

by Rob Natelson | Jan 30, 2023 | Founding Principles

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 was the most influential: “If the American Founding had a poet laureate,”...
The ideas that formed the Constitution: Virgil and other poets

The ideas that formed the Constitution: Virgil and other poets

by Rob Natelson | Jan 24, 2023 | Founding Principles

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 are about the ideas contributing to the American Constitution, not about the goals of the American...
The ideas that formed the Constitution: Cicero

The ideas that formed the Constitution: Cicero

by Rob Natelson | Jan 8, 2023 | Founding Principles

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 much later, however, so to retain chronological...

Decentralization: For Humanity’s Sake

by Brion McClanahan | Feb 16, 2010 | Federalism, Government

The Roman historian Titus Livius once called Rome “the greatest nation in the world.” He wrote those words in a time of moral and political decline, and Livy was hoping by outlining the greatness of the once proud republic, the Roman people would arrest the...

Obama’s Imperial Decree: Target Oklahoma

by Tenth Amendment | Aug 6, 2009 | Featured, Government

by Bryce Shonka Remember the good old days, when one only had to watch out for the Federal Government’s twisted interpretation of the commerce clause to justify tyranny? Well those days seem to be long gone.  The Obama Administration has been employing an old...
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