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The founders were al very well read. They were all clearly influenced by the writings of Aristotle, Sophocles (e.g., Antigone), and other Greeks, The Bible, Roman Law (the Justinian Codex) and the English philosopher john Locke. and the magna carta, and the English Bill of Rights.

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