The ideas that formed the Constitution, Part 4: the pioneers: Socrates, Xenophon, Plato

Some Federalists expressed pride in the Constitution precisely because they considered it more reality-based than Plato’s “Republic.”
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.