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Relation to U.S Constitution

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"A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savour of it." (VI) The Princ e

In my opinion Machiavelli wrote The Prince as a way to show what qualities a principality should have in order to be successful. He was influenced by Girolamo Savonarola and that relates to "A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men."It also relates to our founding fathers who drafted The US Constitution. The men who wrote it were influenced by prior successful people. For example John Locke who believed in natural rights was influenced by Robert Boyle who was a natural philosopher. The rest of the founding fathers were influenced by supreme great men such as:  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, and Denis Diderot who were all philosophers(French and Scottish) in the 18th century enlightenment period. The philosophers in the enlightenment period had great ideas that were put together by our founding fathers to draft the constitution because they were trying to imitate the successful paths. Now most countries try to draft a constitution like that of the United States because they have been the most successful nation that have created a great path and now those leaders try to imitate our founding fathers to have a successful nation of their own by writing their constitution with the influence of our founding fathers.

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