Ancient Rome and the Constitution
You cannot fully understand the Constitution without knowing how the Founders were affected by the saga of ancient Rome.
The ideas that formed the Constitution, part 12: Plutarch
About 40 percent of the title characters in Plutarch’s biographies ended up as pen names in the constitutional debates,
The ideas that formed the Constitution, Part 2: The Founders’ education
Eighteenth-century education encompassed religion, music, and English. . . . But the heart of the curriculum was made up of the Greco-Roman classics.
