The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic

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But your love of the land and of the people, and your relationship to the United States, are very different things. Nevertheless, the founders saw a new age arising, the American age, and they embossed it on the Great Seal.

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The founders believed that a handful of people, perched on the western edge of the Atlantic Ocean, could not only defeat a great global empire like Britain but also build a nation that could reshape the world. Friedman’s analysis is detailed and fascinating, and covers issues such as the size and scope of the federal government, the future of marriage and the social contract, shifts in corporate structures, and new cultural trends that will react to longer life expectancies. An earlier Pew survey was more s p ecific, citing concerns over burgeoning national debt, a widening gap b etween rich and poor , and a workforce threatened by automation.On the back of the seal is an unfinished pyramid, an interesting choice for an emerging modern country in a time when pyramids had not been built for many centuries. In this nation’s case, he argues, there are two ongoing cycles: a roughly 80-year institutional cycle, which links the relationship of the government to its citizenry; and a 50-year socioeconomic cycle that defines the dynamics of the nation’s economy and society. George Friedman’s close examination of American history indicates that the country is in the midst of an expected period of transition rather than a state of decline. com/book/1319785/the-storm-before-the-calm-americas-discord-the-coming-crisis-of-the-2020s-and-the-triumph-beyond-pdf.

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I’m currently suffering from an overexposure of the Romans from Julius Caesar to Nero, so this earlier history from 146-78 BC covers a period I am less familiar with. On the last day of the Constitutional Convention, right after adoption, a woman waiting outside the old Pennsylvania State House asked Benjamin Franklin whether the nation would be a monarchy or a republic. Benjamin Franklin’s minatory message to his fellow Americans that the constitution’s framers had given them a Republic, if they could keep it, is cited on the opening page of Mike Duncan’s “The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic.

Roman aristocracy saw progressive ideas as a threat to their stranglehold on the purse strings of Rome.