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espanolTomando como objetivo analizar la configuracion constitucional de los Estados Unidos, se aborda la influencia que tuvo, en los padres fundadores, la teoria cultural y politica heredada del mundo clasico. En este sentido, recorreremos las referencias al mundo clasico de los ideologos de la Constitucion de 1787 en relacion con los aspectos simbolicos y culturales que influyeron en la conformacion de la nacion norteamericana a fin de aterrizar en nuestra tesis; a saber, que en la construccion de un edificio constitucional esencial en tanto paradigma de la democracia representativa y donde Montesquieu es considerado el oraculo, encontramos en los cimientos el legado de una teoria politica clasica que, naciendo en Platon y Aristoteles, desemboca en Polibio. EnglishHaving as an objective to analyze the constitutional configuration of the United States of America, this paper deals with the influence that political and cultural theory inherited from the Classical World had in the Founding Fathers. Therefore, we will examine the references to the Classical World of the Constitution of 1787 ideologists regarding to symbolic and cultural issues which affected in shaping the United States in order to get to our thesis; namely, in the development of an essential constitutional building as paradigm of representative democracy and where Montesquieu is considered the oracle, we can find in the basis the classical political theory legacy which, being born in Plato and Aristotle, ends in Polybius.