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Up first on today's program, Dr. Ken Calvert, Hillsdale Professor of Ancient History, to talk about Roman models of government to which our founders looked.

We're joined by Dr. Ken Calvert, Professor of Ancient History here at Hillsdale College.

Dr. Calvert, thanks for joining us.

Thank you, Scott.

Great to be here.

Talk today a bit about the founders and the Roman Republic.

Right.

Where they found some inspiration and some models and perhaps some

things they didn't want to emulate, right?

Right.

So I want to start a little bit with our founders, right?

Were they learned men?

When we think about them, what was their knowledge of history and philosophy?

Well, you know, we say here at Hillsdale, classical education, we talk about classical education,

we talk about the liberal arts.

This is how the founders were educated.

They had delved deeply into the ancient past, into the classical past.

They'd read their Aristotle, they'd read their Cicero,

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