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Creating Statesmen, Part 2: Democracy, Oligarchy and Xenophon’s Depiction of Charmides

for David Sullivan and Joe Connole, with many thanks Background: The Pelopennesian War, 431-404 BC, pit the Athenian democracy against the Spartan republic. Now Athens had not always been a democracy; once it was a kingship, and there were traces of noble lineage among the Athenians. One of the people of such descent was Plato …

September 5, 2008 – 10:12 am | By ashok | Posted in philosophy, politics, xenophon | Tagged analysis, classics, mcwilliams | Comments (1)

Forms and Formalities Regarding the American Constitution

Mansfield aims to defend the Constitution against the slights and scorns of political and social science and, especially, to restore respect for its forms and formalities…. Mansfield argues that while the Constitution is a means to ends outside itself, its forms include an end – self-government – that deserves our loyalty even when it is …

June 29, 2007 – 4:04 am | By ashok | Posted in politics | Tagged constitutionalism, mansfield, mcwilliams | Comments (0)

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