POL101Y1 : POL101Y1_Reading_Summary_Compilation.doc
Document Summary
Good luck with your exams and have a good winter break! The liberty of the ancients compared with that of the modern. History: peace and freedom could only be found through representative, rep. gov. was totally unknown to the people of antiquity, many claim traces of rep. gov. Sparta: what sparta had was a monastic aristocracy. The power of the kings was limited by the magistrates, not by elected officials: magistrates were nominated by the people there were only 5 of them. Their authority was as much religious as political, they took part in the actual administration of gov. i. e. in the executive power. Their power far from being simply a barrier against tyranny sometimes because itself intolerable tyranny. True of all the magistrates, even the elected ones. The regime of the gaul"s quite resembled one that a certain party would like to restore to us (1: priests enjoyed unlimited power.
