Lessons from the Late Republic

American Thinker
March 19, 2011
By Ed Houser

The republic to which I refer is not Plato’s classic “Just City in Speech,” nor the American Republic created by the Founding Fathers, but the late Roman Republic. Although Mr. Madison’s form of government was self-consciously modeled on the Roman Republic, since American educational training was captured by the “progressive education” disciples of John Dewey, our school children’s knowledge of the Roman Republic has attenuated to the point of non-existence.