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Aristotle, Constant, and the Distribution of Time

Political Theory 101

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Aristotle's Proto-Democracy

With arist the not the representatives, but the aristocratic rulers are chosen by rotation among the aristocratic class who take turns in governing and leisure. It's a mixed regime which contains elements of each of the different classes to prevent any one of them from becoming orally habituated to having its own way all the time. So i guess they both want to distance themselves from direct, democratic a institutions. But they try to do so. Theare using different mechanisms. For constant there's an electoral mechanism, at least at some level, whereby there might be a a monarch, but a constitutional monarchy,. where you have a body, we have a leg lature elected by the the propertied citizens

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