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Republican or Feudal?

In the January 26, 1957 issue of the Saturday Review, Mr. F. R. Cowell, British classicist and Foreign Office official, discusses “A Republic and its Natural Diseases: Who (or What) Killed Roman Freedom?” Mr. Cowell analyzes the American scene in the light of Roman history, with a view to determining the dangers in our country to the republican form of government. The only specific phenomenon departing from the republican tradition turns out to be the government security program. Referring to it, he writes in part: “The courts were bypassed; innocent people lost their jobs.”

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Republican or Feudal?

In the January 26, 1957 issue of the Saturday Review, Mr. F. R. Cowell, British classicist and Foreign Office official, discusses “A Republic and its Natural Diseases: Who (or What) Killed Roman Freedom?” Mr. Cowell analyzes the American scene in the light of Roman history, with a view to determining the dangers in our country to the republican form of government. The only specific phenomenon departing from the republican tradition turns out to be the government security program. Referring to it, he writes in part: “The courts were bypassed; innocent people lost their jobs.”