In high school government classes, students learn that the principles that the United States was founded on came from European philosophers like Montesquieu and John Locke. However, these principles originally came from Ancient Greece and migrated to Europe during the Enlightenment. The principles that are so prevalent in Ancient Grecian culture gave birth to American democracy. Democracy was born in Ancient Athens during the Athenian Revolution. Political philosophical works by Aristotle are reflected in the written documents that are seen as bases for early American political thought. The Federalist Papers and Anti-Federalist Papers, written by groups of men for and against the ratification of the United States Constitution, took multiple principles from the works of Aristotle and Plato. Also, the American governmental system is normally credited to the English common law and Parliament, however, it is overtly obvious that the Grecian political system influenced it immensely. Principles such as the right to revolution, the right to education, and the conflict of citizenship are parallelled between early America and ancient Greece. Similarities between the Athenian constitution and the United States Constitution are more obvious than connections to European written works like the Magna Carta. This thesis will be an exploration of the connection between the early American government and ancient Grecian political ideology.