Republicanism and the Roman Tradition

I.                   Rome and institutional tenacity

II.                Rome and citizenship

a.     Gaius Popillius Laenas

b.    Recovering liberty.

III.             Machiavelli

a.     ‘Machiavellian’ politics?

b.    Praises the mixed constitution

c.     Recovering virtũ

IV.           Jean-Jacque Rousseau

a.     Citizens and the ‘general will’