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Document Summary
Every state is a community of some kind. Every community is established with a view to some good. Everyone always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. If all communities aim at some good, the state or political community (the high aim at the highest good in the greatest degree. When the government is personal, the ruler is a king. When the citizens rule and are ruled in turn, then he is called a statesman. We must look at the elements of which the state is composed, in order that we may see in different kinds of rule differ from one another. First, there must be a union of those who cannot exist without each other with a nat subject. One that can forsee with the exercise of mind is naturally the leader or master. One that can give effect to such foresight with its body is naturally a subject, and by.
