Larry Benson

Nov 21, 2024 | daily.jstor.org | Kathleen DuVal |Mark Nicholas |Larry Benson |Timothy R. Pauketat

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. When the founders of the United States designed the Constitution, they were learning from history that democracy was likely to fail—to find someone who would fool the people into giving him complete power and then end the democracy. They designed checks and balances to guard against the accumulation of power they had found when studying ancient Greece and Rome.