Lex Christianorum

C ICERO WAS INVOKED BY THOMAS JEFFERSON in his letter to Richard Henry Lee* as one of the classical sources that fed or informed the Declara...

C ICERO ADDRESSES THE ISSUE OF HAPPINESS in various of his works, but in our endeavor to determine what Jefferson's notion of happiness ...

I N BOOK TWO OF CICERO'S DE LEGIBUS , Atticus, Quintus, and Cicero move to an small island in the Fibrenus river about the size of a sma...

W E SAW THAT CICERO WAS CONVINCED that positive law is insufficient to govern man and that the inner discipline and sanction of the natural ...

P OSITIVE LAW ALONE IS TOO SLIM A CHORD with which to discipline man. The positive law needs the moral law as much as the moral law needs t...

C ICERO ADDRESSES THE PERMANENT ARGUMENT against the existence of the natural law. It seems to follow the natural law as if it were its shad...

C ICERO FINDS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF LAW in a divine, not human, source. It is for this reason that law, in its most fundamental sense, is i...

T HE DE LEGIBUS ( On the Laws ) of Cicero is, beside his De republica , another classic text of the Ciceronian adaptation of the Greek doct...

M ARCUS TULLIUS CICERO, "Tully" as he is known to his English-speaking friends, was Republican Rome's great advocate of the ph...