There is nothing new in this earth that has not been done before because the Word says the following in the book of Ecclesiastes . The first Republic Empire was Rome and the modern day Republic is America(Rome). Both had much in common with each which are the following:
1. Both were welfare states
2. Both revolted against a monarchy: Rome against Etruscans & America against the British
3. Both established a Republic with checks and balances
4. Separation of Powers
5. Protecting certain rights for certain people(the Elite)
6. Both imperialistic in nature
7. Both begin as an agricultural in farming and growth in free enterprise
8. Both government became corrupted with self serving politicians
9. Both began s steal from the lower class people
10. Both had a credit crisis and money problems
11. Military Power
12. Mass Destruction of Weapons
13. Conquer others nations with force religion
14. Government spending
15. Both claiming to be a God fearing nation
16. Both cried the following: Taxes, taxes, taxes
17. Both had an issue with homosexuality
Did the Founders of America admired, respected the Roman Empire and its political agenda of controlling the people?
Polybius, Political Science, and the United States Constitution
https://adversusapologetica.wordpre...l-science-and-the-united-states-constitution/
The tripodal system of government described above has probably already struck a chord with many readers. What other system of government today likewise is based on a tripodal division of powers? The United States Constitution. When I first read Book VI of Polybius’Histories, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the division of powers between the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches of the U.S. government. While not an exact parallel, the division of powers in the United States’ system is very similar, with a sole president having the chief executive authority, an elite and experienced body of judges serving as the ruling council of the judiciary (supreme court justices are likewise appointed for life, just as were Roman senators), and a popularly elected legislative body representing the will of the people.
The similarities between the constitutions of Rome and United States is hardly a coincidence. Many of the United States’ founding fathers had extensive Classical training in Greek and Latin literature. To quote Thomas Jefferson:
9 What has been is what will be,
and what has been done is what will be done;
there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Can one say about anything,
“Look, this is new”?
It has already existed in the ages before us.
11 There is no remembrance of those who[c] came before;
and of those who[d] will come after
there will also be no remembrance
by those who follow them.
Miseducation is a powerful tool of controlling the masses of folks.
1. Both were welfare states
2. Both revolted against a monarchy: Rome against Etruscans & America against the British
3. Both established a Republic with checks and balances
4. Separation of Powers
5. Protecting certain rights for certain people(the Elite)
6. Both imperialistic in nature
7. Both begin as an agricultural in farming and growth in free enterprise
8. Both government became corrupted with self serving politicians
9. Both began s steal from the lower class people
10. Both had a credit crisis and money problems
11. Military Power
12. Mass Destruction of Weapons
13. Conquer others nations with force religion
14. Government spending
15. Both claiming to be a God fearing nation
16. Both cried the following: Taxes, taxes, taxes
17. Both had an issue with homosexuality
Did the Founders of America admired, respected the Roman Empire and its political agenda of controlling the people?
Polybius, Political Science, and the United States Constitution
https://adversusapologetica.wordpre...l-science-and-the-united-states-constitution/
The tripodal system of government described above has probably already struck a chord with many readers. What other system of government today likewise is based on a tripodal division of powers? The United States Constitution. When I first read Book VI of Polybius’Histories, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the division of powers between the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches of the U.S. government. While not an exact parallel, the division of powers in the United States’ system is very similar, with a sole president having the chief executive authority, an elite and experienced body of judges serving as the ruling council of the judiciary (supreme court justices are likewise appointed for life, just as were Roman senators), and a popularly elected legislative body representing the will of the people.
The similarities between the constitutions of Rome and United States is hardly a coincidence. Many of the United States’ founding fathers had extensive Classical training in Greek and Latin literature. To quote Thomas Jefferson:
“To read the Latin and Greek authors in their original, is a sublime luxury … I thank on my knees, him who directed my early education, for having put into my possession this rich source of delight …” (Letter to Priestley, Jan. 27, 1800)
However, when I first studied Polybius I was not sure whether he had directly impacted the founding fathers’ ideas about the division of powers in a mixed government, or whether they had picked up the idea only indirectly from later authors (such as Montesquieu). Sure enough, however, after doing some research, I found this valuable article written by Marshall Lloyd that discusses Polybius’ influence on the founding fathers. By the time of the late-18th century CE, Polybius’ 2nd-century BCE Greek history had been reconstructed from the surviving Medieval manuscripts and published in various editions through the printing press. Many of the founding fathers had copies of Polybius’Histories. As Mortimer Sellers (pg. 46) writes in American Republicanism: Roman Ideology in the United States Constitution:
“Americans understood the Roman constitution primarily through the writings of Polybius, readily available in four recent printings, and after [January of] 1787 in excerpts from Spelman’s translation, reproduced inJohn Adam’s Defense of the Constitutions of the United States of America.”
Likewise, the father of the United States Constitution, James Madison, quotes Polybius inThe Federalist Papers No. 63 and in No. 47 discusses the division of powers extensively and its role in the U.S. government:
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands whether of one, a few or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
Ecclesiastes 1 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
9 What has been is what will be,
and what has been done is what will be done;
there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Can one say about anything,
“Look, this is new”?
It has already existed in the ages before us.
11 There is no remembrance of those who[c] came before;
and of those who[d] will come after
there will also be no remembrance
by those who follow them.
Miseducation is a powerful tool of controlling the masses of folks.
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