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Thus, monarchies easily become tyrannies, aristocracies become oligarchies, and democracies slide into anarchy. The result is that if a lawmaker establishes a constitution for a city that corresponds to one of the three good forms of government it will not last long, for no precaution is sufficient to ensure it will not slip into its opposite, for the good [la virtute] and the bad are, when it comes to constitutions, closely related. Niccolò Machiavelli
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:01:03 +0000

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