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The ideas that formed the Constitution, Part 15: James Harrington & Algernon Sidney 0
- February 5, 2023
John Adams featured Harrington in the first volume of his encyclopedia of republican governments, which circulated at the Constitutional Convention.
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The framers explained why the Constitutional Convention had authority to propose the Constitution 0
- January 27, 2023
Key framers explained why the Constitutional Convention had authority to propose a new form of government.
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The ideas that formed the Constitution, Part 14: Machiavelli 0
- January 27, 2023
The Founders were far more interested in Machiavelli’s “Discourses on Livy” than in “The Prince.”
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The ideas that formed the Constitution, Part 13: Tacitus 0
- January 23, 2023
The most important lesson the Founders learned from Tacitus was that power corrupts.
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No, a Convention of States Could Not Change the “One State/One Vote” Rule 0
- January 22, 2023
Could a convention of states could change the “one state/one vote” rule to one based on population? The short answer is “No.” In at least 42 conventions of states and colonies over 350+years, there is no precedent for such a change. The possibility exists only in the fantasies of convention opponents. Defenders of the federal
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The ideas that formed the Constitution, part 12: Plutarch 0
- January 13, 2023
About 40 percent of the title characters in Plutarch’s biographies ended up as pen names in the constitutional debates,
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