The Founders read and debated the works of Enlightenment political philosophers such as John Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rousseau and applied many of their ideas in arguing for independence and establishing our government. They also looked for inspiration to the Classical era, particularly the Roman Republic. Mistrusting pure democracy, as practiced in Golden Age Athens, the Founding Fathers admired the Roman Republic, which lasted more th…
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