By Gene Callahan

The political platforms of the Roman Republic have been established nearly completely on culture, "the manner of the ancestors", instead of on a written structure. whereas the founders of the yank Republic regarded to historic Rome as a first-rate version for his or her company, however, in keeping with the rationalist spirit in their age, the yankee founders tried to create a rational algorithm that will consultant the behavior of yankee politics, particularly, the U.S. structure. those examples supply a remarkable case of the appropriate kinds, famously delineated by way of Michael Oakeshott in "Rationalism in Politics" and in other places, among politics as a convention grounded in culture and politics as a procedure in keeping with rules flowing from summary reasoning. This e-book explores how the histories of the 2 republics can assist us to appreciate Oakeshott's claims approximately rational as opposed to conventional politics. via interpreting such concerns we could come to appreciate greater not just Oakeshott's critique of rationalism, but in addition smooth constitutional thought, concerns within the layout of the ecu Union, and elements of the revival of republicanism.

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