{"id":994,"date":"2021-05-06T00:27:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T00:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/?p=994"},"modified":"2021-05-06T00:29:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T00:29:38","slug":"limited-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2021\/05\/limited-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Limited Government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why did the Founders want limited government? Because they read their history, and very particularly the Roman historians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Not equally moderate was his brother, surnamed Felix, who had for some time been governor of Judaea, and thought that he could do any evil act with impunity, backed up as he was by such power.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 Tacitus, <em>The Annals<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Learn about Tacitus in <a href=\"https:\/\/romanroadsmedia.com\/the-romans\">Old Western Culture: The Romans<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/9.-Tacitus_White-_v2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/9.-Tacitus_White-_v2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/9.-Tacitus_White-_v2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/9.-Tacitus_White-_v2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/9.-Tacitus_White-_v2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/9.-Tacitus_White-_v2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/9.-Tacitus_White-_v2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did the Founders want limited government? Because they read their history, and very particularly the Roman historians. &#8220;Not equally moderate was his brother, surnamed Felix, who had for some time been governor of Judaea, and thought that he could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2021\/05\/limited-government\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,165,137],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commonplaces","category-old-western-culture","category-roman-roads-media","tag-rome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}