Some Constitutional Takeaways from the 2024 Presidential Election
- Constitution
- November 30, 2024
None of the four “progressive” mega-donors had any personal connections to most of the legislative districts they targeted. They didn’t live there, didn’t own property there, and in most cases probably had never seen the district.
READ MORENewton exemplified the Scientific Revolution—an event that changed not only how people thought about the physical universe, but also how they thought about politics and government. This greatly affected the U.S. Constitution.
READ MOREThe most important lesson the Founders learned from Tacitus was that power corrupts.
READ MOREParticipants in the ratification debates could supplement English by using Virgil’s expressions . . . Virgil gave their message more force.
READ MOREDirectly or indirectly, Cicero probably influenced the Constitution as much as any other thinker.
READ MORESome Federalists expressed pride in the Constitution precisely because they considered it more reality-based than Plato’s “Republic.”
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