Chronicles Magazine February 2001

Free Greeks, Servile Americans

Thomas Fleming - JANUARY 01, 2001

Conservatives are fond of saying that the United States is a republic, not a democracy, and in their appeals to the national conscience, they invoke the sacred language of republican tradition, citing scriptures from Aristotle and Cicero, from...

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The Western Way of War From Plato to NATO
Roger McGrath - JANUARY 01, 2001
When I first began reading of the ancient world as a child, I was mystified by the collapse of the Greek city-states and the fall of Rome. How could such a thing come to pass?
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Athenian Hegemony and Its Lessons for America
Srdja Trifkovic - JANUARY 01, 2001
Our common European civilization—of which the old American Republic is an integral part, or else it is nothing —is rooted in "the glory that was Greece." Our spiritual and intellectual mentors are to be found among Greek thinkers, scientists, and...
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Round Table Discussion

Don't Fix It Restoring
Stephen Presser - JANUARY 01, 2001
The Electoral College, as we used to learn and as readers of this journal will still be aware, was supposed to be a device for removing the choice of the president from the people.
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Round Table Discussion

Consider the Alternative
Philip Jenkins - JANUARY 01, 2001
Wessex and Aquitaine, Arizona and Pennsylvania. All were, once upon a time, regions that had a distinct political identity, genuine states in which one could be a citizen or a subject.
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Round Table Discussion

Roll Over, James Madison
Clyde Wilson - JANUARY 01, 2001
To anyone who has spent some time with the Framers and ratifiers of the U.S. Constitution, most current talk about that document seems not about the Constitution at all but about some fanciful construct of wishful thinking, accumulated...
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Round Table Discussion

True Reform
Scott P. Richert - JANUARY 01, 2001
The Electoral College is an archaic institution designed by men who felt that they could not trust the people at large to choose the president—or so we are told every four years by the most ignorant members of the Fourth Estate.
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Chronicles Magazine February 2001

Free Greeks, Servile Americans

The Western Way of War From Plato to NATO

Athenian Hegemony and Its Lessons for America

Don't Fix It Restoring

Consider the Alternative

Roll Over, James Madison

True Reform

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