The Dangers of Polyarchy Over Monarchy

He's going to make another argument here that the, the polyarchy is more likely to lead to corruption than the monarchy. So it's interesting that he's not actually saying that the tyrant is the worst form of government. Um, polyarchy deviates into tyranny, not less, but perhaps more frequently than monarchy. He says there is a greater chance that where there are many rulers, one of them will abandon the intention of the common good. And then it will be abandoned by the one ruler,. Because you have more people, more simply more chances for it to go bad.

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