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 13: Tacitus

The most important lesson the Founders learned from Tacitus was that power corrupts.
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.