May state legislative applications limit an Article V convention? Subject, yes; specific language, probably not
- Constitution, CONSTITUTION - Article V, CONSTITUTION - Uncategorized
- September 12, 2013
Instead of speculating on the issue, II’s Senior Fellow actually examined books of international law widely used among the founding generation.
READ MORESome Federalists expressed pride in the Constitution precisely because they considered it more reality-based than Plato’s “Republic.”
READ MOREPlato refined Socrates’s classification of political systems and suggested that the better political forms tend to degenerate into corrupt forms. Aristocracy, for example, becomes oligarchy, and democracy becomes tyranny.
READ MOREEighteenth-century education encompassed religion, music, and English. . . . But the heart of the curriculum was made up of the Greco-Roman classics.
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