POL200Y1 Chapter 14: Week 1_ Chapters 1-3
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Only two kinds of states: republics and principalities. Principalities: either hereditary where family in control has been long established, or they are new. Either entirely new, or members added to the hereditary state of the prince who has acquired them. Such states are accustomed to live under a prince or in freedom. Acquisition through military power of the prince or of others, or by fortune or by ability. Chapter 2: how principalities are to be ruled and preserved. Especially those accustomed to the family of princes. Princes can be average and maintain power which can be lost only by excessive force. Italy"s duke of ferrara lasted against attacks of the venetians in 1484 and of. Pope julius in 1510 only because he was established in his principality. Mixed principalities have difficulties when there is a new addition to an old state.
