May state legislative applications limit an Article V convention? Subject, yes; specific language, probably not
- September 12, 2013
This 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.
READ MOREEighteenth-century education encompassed religion, music, and English. . . . But the heart of the curriculum was made up of the Greco-Roman classics.
READ MOREThese essays will focus on the writers who taught the Founders their political lessons—their lessons in republicanism, in political organization, and in political virtue.
READ MOREMany writings by law professors merely serve a political agenda and do not meet the minimal qualifications for real scholarship
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