The founding fathers based the constitution of the Roman Republic. One is the most famous books The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by gibbons came out in 1776. For one the Roman system was based on precedent which is why they wrote down the constitution. The other parts like ex post facto or making a crime after the fact, the government confiscating property randomly, and other latin parts were specifically based on the failures of the roman republic.
The founding fathers based the constitution of the Roman Republic. One is the most famous books The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by gibbons came out in 1776. For one the Roman system was based on precedent which is why they wrote down the constitution. The other parts like ex post facto or making a crime after the fact, the government confiscating property randomly, and other latin parts were specifically based on the failures of the roman republic.