Assertion: cicero's understanding | /r/HasProperty | modern
Facets:
value: thoroughly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Though he wrote two millennia ago, his understanding of why defending liberty requires tightly constraining government was thoroughly modern:
text: Not only was Cicero an important influence on our founders' attempt to defend our liberty by tightly constraining government, his understanding of why such constraints were necessary was thoroughly modern: "Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.