The Senate of the Roman Republic: Addresses on the History of Roman Constitutionalism

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Government Printing Office, 1995 - 189 pages
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Provides a series of fourteen addresses delivered in 1993 before the Senate by Senator Robert C. Byrd. Discusses the constitutional history of separated and shared powers as shaped in the republic and empire of ancient Rome. These lectures are also in opposition to the proposed line-item veto concept. The introduction states that Senator Byrd delivered these speeches entirely from memory and without notes.
 

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War Revolution and Turmoil
105
Death Throes of the Roman Republic
119
The Rise of Julius Caesar 6044 B C
131
Little More Than a Name 4623 B C
145
A Turbulent Stream Flowing through Dark Centuries of Intrigue and Violence
161
Mainstay of the Republic
175
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Senator Byrd's journey from the hard-scrabble coalfields to the marbled halls of Congress has inspired generations of people in West Virginia and throughout the nation. From reading the stories of the Founding Fathers as a young boy by the light of a kerosene lamp to the swearing of an oath for more than a half century to guard the United States Constitution, Senator's Byrd's life is legendary.

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