The Founders and the Constitution, Part 2: John Adams
Although John Adams didn’t attend the 1787 Constitutional Convention, he laid much of the groundwork.
The ideas that formed the Constitution: part 5: Aristotle
James Madison admired Aristotle’s work “The Politeia.”
The ideas that formed the Constitution, Part 4: the pioneers: Socrates, Xenophon, Plato
Some Federalists expressed pride in the Constitution precisely because they considered it more reality-based than Plato’s “Republic.”
