On the Creation and Destruction of Constitutional Government

File photo of the remains of the Roman Forum in Rome, Italy. The U.S. Constitution owes much to Polybius, a Greek historian who praised Rome’s constitution and explained how and why it worked. Carla Tavares/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0

Commentary

Polybius was a Greek writer of history who served as a military adviser to the Roman General Scipio Africanus the Younger. However important his advice might have been to the destroyer of Carthage (in 146 B.C.), Polybius was even more important for America’s Founding Fathers and the U.S. Constitution.