All men belong to the best party, who are not guilty of any crime,
I wonder how Cicero would feel about felons voting after serving their time?
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a regard to the common interest
This is key part to Aristotle's understanding of a "true" form of government. I think this is difficult to ascertain as individuals have different ideas of what the "common interest" is.
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These colonies, under such forms of government, and in such a union, would be unconquerable by all the monarchies of Europe.
Is he suggesting federalism makes a country stronger than other forms of government? It is an interesting concept because federalism causes some divisions by nature.
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It should be in miniature an exact portrait of the people at large. It should think, feel, reason, and act like them.
This is the foundation of republicanism as the government should be based on popular sovereignty. However, a discussion question for students may be, how can we expect the government to act like the people when there are so many other influences such as money? or is the government truly a reflection of the people if only 58% of eligible voters vote? What is a solution to this problem?
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as the divine science of politics is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government, which are generally institutions that last for many generations, there can be no employment more agreeable to a benevolent mind than a research after the best.
This initial part is striking to me. Particularly the beginning portion about the science of politics and social happiness. It sounds poetic and yet it is truly the basis of how political theorists write and think. Hobbes and Locke write about the ways in which society is run in order to explain the laws of nature and then how society should be governed. I think this would be an interesting idea to explore in the classroom. What social structures exist in a school or elsewhere that cause there to be certain rules.
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