Free Republic

The history of all ancient societies is the history of class struggle. In each of these we find a complicated arrangement of people into various social, economic, and political orders. Ancient Rome had its patricians, knights, plebeians, and slaves. During the middle ages there were three orders; oratores, bellatores, laborares: this translates as "those who pray", "those who fight", and "those who work". http://jxb7076.hubpages.com/hub/The-Left-the-Right-and-the-Communist-Agenda

There has been much discussion lately about what it means to be an American. I would like to address this question from two angles; 1) Social Contract and 2) the Patrician Class. Although these concepts appear to represent opposite sides of the political aisle, they deal with what it means to be an American from the perspectives of the commoner, the intellectual and the politician. Social contract means the common understanding by which we conduct our daily lives within society. The term "social contract" was developed to describe the restrictions to which we mutually agree that society may function (click...