This idea that a well ordered family can lead to a well ordered state is a very old one. Arius Didymus: "A primary kind of association is the legal union of a

This idea that a well ordered family can lead to a well ordered state is a very old one. Arius Didymus: "A primary kind of association is the legal union of a man and woman for begetting children and for sharing life... just as the household yields for the city the seeds of its formation, thus it yields the constitution."