Foreign Votes and Foreign Rites: Machiavelli on the Political Challenges of Building the Roman Empire

• In Event: Constitutionalism in Context

Brief Overview

Machiavelli's comparison between the potential political harms caused by foreign voters and foreign religious rites may have intimated his indecisiveness on the possibility of maintaining republican freedom for a growing Roman Empire.

Author

• Zhiqiang Ji, Claremont Graduate University