The embodiment of liberty is the main feature it invokes, the symbol of libertas from which the Statue derives its name is the icon of America that liberty island enlightens the world. Emancipating the American is the Roman goddess; Lady liberty represents her cherished form; includes the tabula ansata for votive tablets; ritualizes Imperial Rome evoking the law upon the American inscribing the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 that a broken chain lies at her feet. The symbolic representation, “when one is deprived of one’s liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on, as the one who had the power to prevent him but did not use it.” Is iconoclastic to its very form, liberty; the Statue of Liberty is symbolic of the Roman mentality that transparent of its reminiscence’s icon, is of freedom, shackled, the United States, to the Roman tyranny abroad for its representation inherently represents the bonds of which the United States is dominated by the Roman cause it incubates in America. The majesty that which Libertas, is the personification of liberty is that which is fit for the freedman remains a welcoming sight to immigrants arriving to sovereignty. Unfree, since it was the Athenian democratic experiment that failed to turn out to be the Roman idea of liberty. Instead Demokratia supplemented the Res Publica; the traditions of the Greece impacted Rome, as Roman symbolism is American emblematic. “That we can place the conception of utopia or, to give it its proper name, on the best state of a commonwealth.” Is in fact, the universal ethical will, the creator of right as Rome has been since its demise.
“Who trace the origins of jurisprudence from ultimate principles; who pass on carefully the knowledge of all antiquity; who, of course, know the power and the dominion of the emperor, the senate, the people, and the magistrates of the Romans; who bring to the interpretation of legislation the discussion of philosophers about laws and state; who know well the Greek and Latin languages, in which the statutes are set forth; who at length circumscribe the entire division of learning within its limits, classify into types, divide into parts, point out with words, and illustrate with examples.” “If you want to understand politics, study evolution first. “On entering realms of symbolism, whether by way of systematized artistic forms or the living, dynamic forms of dreams and visions, we have constantly kept in mind the essential need to mark out the field of symbolic action, in order to prevent confusion between phenomena which might appear to be identical when they are merely similar or externally related is the delimitation of the symbolic toward the actuality of the symbol,” psychology of ideas and beliefs. That the Roman formed the constitution; from the, “noblest people and the greatest power that as ever existed.” Rome is “Our myth, is the Nation, our myth, is the greatness of the Nation! And to this myth, to this grandeur, that we wish to translate into a complete reality.” The grand narrative of the American is but a façade—artifice that the machination is “we go about to fight enemies abroad that will be the day Americas empire happens so.”—Madison
“Whatever follows are the greatest ironies of this Order: (1) Here we seek to promote peace, but murder is our means. (2) Here we seek to open the minds of men but require obedience to a master and set of rules. (3) Here we seek to reveal the danger of blind faith, yet we are practitioners ourselves of ideology. The Hegemon we promote is the consequence of liberty whereas the order one would rather have is nonetheless whom authority is desirable as all power is pejorative when nothing is so gentle as freedom in its primitive state, becomes nonexistent when placed by nature at an equal. Until there is a time were there not the stupidity of brutes and the fatal enlightenment of man when there is liberty as destructive as freedom.”—Rousseau “There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.” Montesquieu warning, “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”—Abraham Lincoln
“It is imperative that America guard itself against pride, greed, a lust for power, and a corrupt people, which are just the things which caused the Romans to fall…” James Madison knew “Factions, have been and forever will be, more fatal in their consequences:”—Livy “a nation cannot and will not thrive or even survive for long. America has learned from the great Roman civilization, but many lessons still wait to be learned, that are open and receptive to the warnings it holds. Rome did not fall in a day, but nevertheless, it fell.” Madison said in Federalist 63. That America is not intended to be the copy of Rome. Nonetheless the Roman Republic not only aided America it created America, and. “Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires…” (The Federalist number 10.)
George Washington expressed, “The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.” John Adams would correspond with Jonathan Jackson in their Letters; it has been this way since Rome of the Republic.
“The division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. Is the greatest political evil under our Constitution,” “But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction.” The Framers knew that the government they were creating was far from perfect, America is flawed, yet it would be better than its progenitor the Roman Republic; the gravest threat our political system causes is factions, and the founders envisioned the young United States as an heir to the Roman Republic as it intended to be. The Roman system of checks and balances; its freedoms of conscience, separation, and speech; its competitive elections; its rule of law; its two-party system; its enshrining of peaceful transitions of power to electioneering, Quintus wrote, Commentariolum Petitionis—Short Guide to Electioneering, in which he laid out a comprehensive strategy on campaigning. “People naturally prefer you to lie to them rather than refuse your help…you must cultivate the [wealthy] diligently. You must call upon them, persuade them that politically we have always been in sympathy with the Optimates [the Republicans] and have never in the least been supporters of the Populares [the Democrats.]”
Yet always for the reason of state; an attentive politician must always be in the middle for society citizenry, neither catering for the people nor aristocrat. That, “Politics produces; deception; a most wretched custom is our electioneering and scrambling for office.” The subservience of a Roman senator during the Principate, when asked to vote on a matter in an open ballot by the emperor Tiberius, responded, “Could you tell me in what order you will cast your vote, Caesar? If you go first, I shall have something to follow. If you go last of all, I fear I might find myself inadvertently on the wrong side.” The anecdote can’t help but make one think of the servility of some members of the U.S. Congress to powerful interests are all descended from its tradition. Rome originated from the Republicanism of the Roman Republic this Origen ‘The supreme metrical system’ and by no surprise, the United States governs overseas territories through republican institutions.
