Anamnesis of the Classical World in the Political Configuration of the United States of America
Abstract
Having as an objective to analyze the constitutional configuration of the United States of America, this paper deals with the influence that political and cultural theory inherited from the Classical World had in the Founding Fathers. Therefore, we will examine the references to the Classical World of the Constitution of 1787 ideologists regarding to symbolic and cultural issues which affected in shaping the United States in order to get to our thesis; namely, in the development of an essential constitutional building as paradigm of representative democracy and where Montesquieu is considered the oracle, we can find in the basis the classical political theory legacy which, being born in Plato and Aristotle, ends in Polybius.
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