POLS 2900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Aristocracy, Tyrant

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2900
• Professor: Michelle Mawhinney

Document Summary

Same goes for government, they ought to know every aspect. Although the very best might be unattainable they should at least know it and know what can be appropriated from it to their relative circumstance. They should also know the history, administration, etc of past governments and their idea of (cid:449)hat"s (cid:271)est. Laws must be in accordance with the constitution and not the other way around. Laws should not be established to force the constitutions rules on people, but to protect them. Many types of rule under democracy and other variations. There is only democracy and oligarchy, everything else is a perversion. These are the only 2 true forms of government. Democracy simply means the free are the rulers, regardless of class or wealth. Elements of the states: food producing class, the husbandmen; the mechanics; traders, buying and selling; serfs and labourers; the warriors; the wealthy who minister to the state using their property; the magistrates in office.