POLSCI 3VV3 Lecture Notes - Res Publica, Mixed Government, Oligarchy
27 Feb 2013
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Developmental: represented through aristotle/rousseau, model: athens, participate in politics, the point of citizenship is to realize your capacities, way of living the best possible life. Protective: represented by machiavelli/madison, model: rome, much less democratic (democratic is an insult dealing with the lower people), there are real advantages with having people involved politics. Machiavelli reminds us of a third sense: 3. City has everything you need for human life. Aristotle distinguishes between 6 different types of regimes (monarchy or. Tyranny; aristocracy or oligarchy; constitutional government or democracy) Machiavelli wants to know how to make something to last (machiavelli says nothing last forever) 89-90 a popular government : we are not interested in the abstract questions want to ask pragmatic questions to figure out how to make something last, all kinds of government are defective . When combined in the same constitution a prince, a nobility, and the power of the people.
