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Cicero and the Constitution

We the People

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Cicero's Influence on the Constitution

Benjamin Strahman is the author of Crisis and Constitutionalism. He argues that Cicero anticipated enlightenment thinkers, who cited him directly. John Quincy Adams exhorted his own sons to read Cicero before he took a motto from the Tusculum disputations as his own motto.

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