May state legislative applications limit an Article V convention? Subject, yes; specific language, probably not
- September 12, 2013
In the debate over the Constitution, both sides looked to Polybius for ammunition.
READ MORERead about the constitutional and legal issues in Twitter censorship.
READ MOREJames Madison admired Aristotle’s work “The Politeia.”
READ MOREThis particular piece of sophistry is particularly beguiling, because it relies on several hidden fallacies….
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.
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