Friday, June 15, 2018

When King John signed the Magna Carta, it was like signing a surrender document …

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“No freemen shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or exiled or in any way destroyed , nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, exce...
Tuesday, June 12, 2018

How did the Virginia Declaration of Rights influence the Bill of Rights?

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“That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights , of which, when they enter into a state of...
Thursday, June 7, 2018

The Petition of Right influenced the United States Bill of Rights

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“The history of  Great Britain  is the one with which we are in general the best acquainted, and it gives us  many useful lessons . We may...
Monday, June 4, 2018

Aristotle and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

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One of the great Macedonian kings was Philip II of Macedon . He fathered the boy who would become  Alexander the Great , and he hired a t...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Socrates and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints  is among a number of churches that value the wisdom of Socrates. Church leaders have even...
Monday, May 28, 2018

A review of “The War That Made America”

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"Since the English have in their power an officer and two cadets, and, in general all the prisoners whom they took when [they] assas...
Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Some of the credit for “separation of powers” should go to Polybius

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“It is well known that in the Roman republic the legislative authority, in the last resort, resided for ages in two different political b...