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Noam Chomsky claims, "...from the Romans into the late 19th century the idea of having a job was considered an abomination. You’re placing yourself in a position of subordination to a master." How did people think of work during this period? Was it really considered an abomination?
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John Adams wrote that the US constitution was, "made for a moral and religious people," and that it is, "wholly inadequate to the government of any other." What elements of the constitution did he believe were suited for a religious society but not an irreligious one?
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To what degree was Rome's Republic destabilized by a unwillingness to deal with real social and economic problems that could have had political solutions? Did Cato the Younger and the Optimates block reforms that would have stabilized the Republic?
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Montaigne is said to have invented the essay. What separates his writing from the similar works of Seneca or Plutarch?
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Did WWI & WWII supply constraints turn combatant populations into "necessity vegetarians?" Was this considered politically untenable?
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Thomas Aquinas wrote that eating too soon in the day was a form of the deadly sin of gluttony. Did Medieval Europeans pay attention and eschew their sinful breakfasts, or did only members of the church heed him?
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The majority of the US Supreme Court interprets the constitution according to "Originalism," which tries to determine what the framers intended when they created the document. Did those framers find elements of the constitution didn't work as planned and have to reinterpret their own document?
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What happened to the Russian Communist Party after the fall of the Soviet Union? Today, Russia is dominated by United Russia. Did the soviets retain much support after the early 1990s?
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