When the framers and ratifiers used the phrase “regulate Commerce” they meant “regulate trade.” Both “regulate commerce” and “regulate trade” meant to administer the body of jurisprudence known as the law merchant.
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If the American Founding had a poet laureate, Virgil would be it.
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Directly or indirectly, Cicero probably influenced the Constitution as much as any other thinker.
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During the Founding era, the phrase “regulate Commerce” had a very specific meaning
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Cicero’s views are reflected in some of the Constitution’s specific provisions.
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In the debate over the Constitution, both sides looked to Polybius for ammunition.
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James Madison admired Aristotle’s work “The Politeia.”
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This particular piece of sophistry is particularly beguiling, because it relies on several hidden fallacies….
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Instead of speculating on the issue, II’s Senior Fellow actually examined books of international law widely used among the founding generation.
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Some Federalists expressed pride in the Constitution precisely because they considered it more reality-based than Plato’s “Republic.”
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Plato refined Socrates’s classification of political systems and suggested that the better political forms tend to degenerate into corrupt forms. Aristocracy, for example, becomes oligarchy, and democracy becomes tyranny.
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