POLI 2P92 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Orcus, National League, Clergy
18 May 2016
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Abdicates from moral position stating that a leader should rule for the good of the people he rules. Was a diplomat for 14 years in italy"s florentine republic during the medici family"s exile. According to machiavelli, reliance on mercenaries and auxiliaries for troops is a grave mistake. A prince must lay strong foundations good laws and good arms. A sovereign state which is governed by its citizens: refuses to discuss republics as he is addressing one of the princes from a principality: giovanni de medici. Machiavelli suffered for his defense of a proposed florentine republic, before the medici family, who had taken over its rule through commerce, ran it. They are all princely states, which are governed by a single, strong ruler (a prince) The prince: machiavelli: new principalities: are either annexed to a ruler"s existing territory or are completely new. New principalities are either used to being ruled by a prince or are used to being free.
