As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible. Neither the Declaration of Independence of 1776 nor the Constitution of 1787 ...

The Roman Republic lasted nearly 500 years, ... The checks and balances in the U.S. Constitution look very much like those that were in place in Rome before Augustus.

A course on our Constitution — what it says and what it means — should be required for high school students at every school, public or private, in the country. Leonard Malkin Detroit. To the ...

We like to think of the Constitution as eternal. ... The halls of the Philadelphia convention in 1787 echoed repeatedly with usable lessons from the Roman republic and ancient Greece.

The Roman Republic lasted nearly 500 years, ... The checks and balances in the U.S. Constitution look very much like those that were in place in Rome before Augustus.