Fordham Law Review Volume 71 Issue 4 Article 2 2003 Reviving the Roman Republic; Remembering the Good Old Cause Rob Atkinson Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Rob Atkinson, Reviving the Roman Republic; Remembering the Good Old Cause, 71 Fordham L. Rev. 1187 (2003). Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol71/iss4/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. It has been accepted for inclusion in Fordham Law Review by an authorized editor of FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. REVIVING THE ROMAN REPUBLIC; REMEMBERING THE GOOD OLD CAUSE Rob Atkinson1 Caesar had his Brutus; Charles the First, his Cromwell; and George the Third... may profit by their example. 2 Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses Be it declared and enacted by this present Parliament, and by the authority of the same: That the People of England, and of all the dominions and territories thereunto belonging, are and shall be, and are hereby constituted, made, established and confirmed to be, a Commonwealth or Free-State; and shall from henceforth be governed as a Commonwealth and Free-State,-by the Supreme Authority of this Nation the Representatives of the People in Parliament, and by such as they shall appoint and constitute officers 1. Ruden, McClosky, Smith, Schuster & Russell Professor of Law, Florida State University. My thanks to Chenell Garrido, Roman Ortega-Cowan, and Michael Rowan, my research assistants at Florida State, for their unfailing ability and enthusiasm.