Ideas That Formed the Constitution, Part 8: Cicero
The previous installment in this series outlined the life and career of the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero. It described how John...
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Dec 5, 20221 min read
The Ideas That Formed the Constitution, Part 7: Cicero
There is one more Greek on our list, the biographer Plutarch. He lived much later, however, so to retain chronological order, we now...
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Nov 28, 20221 min read
The Ideas That Formed the Constitution, Part 6: Polybius
Previous installments in this series have covered four Greek scholars whose thought helped shape the American Constitution. (For...
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Nov 21, 20221 min read
The Ideas That Formed the Constitution, Part 5: Aristotle
Unlike Socrates, Xenophon, and Plato—the subjects of the third and fourth installments in this series—Aristotle wasn’t an Athenian. (For...
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Nov 12, 20221 min read
The Ideas That Formed the Constitution, Part 4: The Pioneers: Socrates, Xenophon, Plato, and the ...
As explained in the second installment, 18th-century schoolboys weren’t expected to be as proficient in Greek as in Latin. However, they...
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Nov 7, 20221 min read
The Ideas That Formed the Constitution, Part 3: The Pioneers: Socrates, Xenophon, Plato
By the beginning of the fifth century before the Christian Era (500 B.C.E.), Greek civilization had spread far beyond mainland Greece....
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Nov 2, 20221 min read
The Ideas That Formed the Constitution, Part 2: The Founders’ Education
Examine the back of a dollar bill carefully. You’ll find three inscriptions written in the Latin language. The one to the right is “E...
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Oct 31, 20221 min read
First in a Series: The Ideas That Formed the Constitution
Who created the ideas behind the U.S. Constitution? The history books relate how the Constitution was composed by its 55 “framers” from...
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