Rob Natelson Archives - Independence Institute

The ideas that formed the Constitution, part 6: Polybius 0
- December 5, 2022
In the debate over the Constitution, both sides looked to Polybius for ammunition.
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The “Twitter Files” Scandal 0
- December 4, 2022
Read about the constitutional and legal issues in Twitter censorship.
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The ideas that formed the Constitution: part 5: Aristotle 0
- November 28, 2022
James Madison admired Aristotle’s work “The Politeia.”
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Destroying Falsehoods Behind ‘You Didn’t Build That!’0
- November 22, 2022
This particular piece of sophistry is particularly beguiling, because it relies on several hidden fallacies….
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The ideas that formed the Constitution, Part 4: the pioneers: Socrates, Xenophon, Plato 0
- November 20, 2022
Some Federalists expressed pride in the Constitution precisely because they considered it more reality-based than Plato’s “Republic.”
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The ideas that formed the Constitution, Part 3: the pioneers: Socrates, Xenophon, Plato 0
- November 13, 2022
Plato 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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