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= The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli and its Influence on Early America =

by Lauren Peterson, Shannon Spellman, and Leah Woodside

==Niccolo Machiavelli was born in Florence, 1496 and lived until 1527. He studied many types of political systems and ways in which people come to power. //The Prince// is the summary of all he observed during his lifetime and studied from historical texts concerning principalities. The following pages show how Machiavelli's text influenced early America through the arguments and discussions of our Fouding Fathers, the U.S. Constitution, and Brown's //Edgar Huntly.//==