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Thursday November 27, 2008 · 9:10 AM PST

2008/11/27 · 09:10

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:

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