Book · 2026 · Political Science
The Fall of Republics
A History from Ancient Carthage to the American Constitution
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In your latest book, The Fall of Republics, you examine what America's founders learned from failed republics and how they designed the Constitution to avoid the same fate.
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“In your latest book, The Fall of Republics, you examine what America's founders learned from failed republics and how they designed the Constitution to avoid the same fate.”
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“And as I argue in my book, it's really in the period after 146 BC that partisanship in Rome within the Roman Republic becomes so fierce.”
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“Yeah, I think this is one of the most important arguments that I make in the book is that without an existential enemy, I mean a real enemy, the republican system in the case of Rome was severely strained.”
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“But remember, and this is one thing I tried to bring up in the book, is that the founding fathers, the people that wrote the constitution, all of these people were very well educated in the classics and in the history of ancient Greece and Rome.”
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“And so in the book what I really wanted to look at is, you know, what were those things, what lessons did they draw, how do they manifest themselves in the constitution, and how well those safeguards that they put in, you know, held up.”
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“In fact, in this book what I do is I'm looking at what I call the great republics, which are republics that last more than their first century.”
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“I think that in the book I actually look at if we looked at 146 BC for Rome, let's say we were tracking the Roman case.”
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“Is this what I call in the book the prosecutorial politics, where you prosecute your political enemies all the time.”