Showing posts with label influences on the Founding Fathers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label influences on the Founding Fathers. Show all posts
Sunday, August 24, 2025

In defense of the Ancient Greeks and Romans

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“In the most pure democracies of Greece , many of the executive functions were performed, not by the people themselves, but by officers elec...
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

A review of Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics”

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“The best writings of antiquity upon government those I mean of Aristotle , Zeno and Cicero are lost. We have human nature, society, and un...
Saturday, October 19, 2024

Even after 1776, the Founding Fathers remained proud of their British heritage

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“In England, for a long time after the Norman Conquest , the authority of the monarch was almost unlimited. Inroads were gradually made upon...
Friday, June 28, 2024

Did the Iroquois Confederacy influence the Constitution?

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“Helvetius and Rousseau preached to the French nation liberty , till they made them the most mechanical slaves; equality till they destroy...
Monday, June 10, 2024

How the Greeks and Romans influenced the Founding Fathers

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Note: This blog post quotes from some historical documents, which contain words that would now be considered offensive. These words are only...
Monday, January 15, 2024

Algernon Sidney influenced the U. S. Declaration of Independence

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“This book contains all the malice, and revenge, and treason, that mankind can be guilty of: It fixes the sole power in the parliament and t...
Saturday, February 25, 2023

The Founding Fathers strongly criticized Plato’s “Republic” (and for good reason)

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“Socrates had reason indeed to complain of the misrepresentations of Plato ; for in truth his dialogues are libels on Socrates.” –  Thomas J...
Tuesday, January 3, 2023

John Adams praised James Harrington’s “The Commonwealth of Oceana”

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“These are what are called revolution-principles. They are the principles of  Aristotle  and Plato , of Livy and Cicero , of Sydney , Harri...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Actually, Rousseau did NOT influence the Founding Fathers (sorry Wikipedia)

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Wikipedia argues that Rousseau influenced the Founding Fathers … I have often heard people claim that Rousseau “influenced” the Founding Fa...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Influences on the Constitution

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Introduction : The document that changed everything in America … When the Constitution was written, there was a lot going on at that tim...