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Subject Area: Political Theory
Collection: Classics of Liberty

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Treatise on the Commonwealth [54 BC]

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The Political Works of Marcus Tullius Cicero: Comprising his Treatise on the Commonwealth; and his Treatise on the Laws. Translated from the original, with Dissertations and Notes in Two Volumes. By Francis Barham, Esq. (London: Edmund Spettigue, 1841-42). Vol. 1.

Part of: The Political Works of Marcus Tullius Cicero, 2 vols.


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The Treatise on the Commonwealth is Cicero’s imitation of Plato’s dialogue The Republic where he uses Stoic philosophy to explain Roman constitutional theory. He makes a connection between moral government and individual moral virtue.

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