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  1     II, VI  |       government tends to be neither democracy nor oligarchy, but something
  2     II, VI  |             oligarchy, monarchy, and democracy, the king forming the monarchy,
  3     II, VI  |              and find the element of democracy in the common meals and
  4     II, VI  |           constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either
  5     II, VI  |            nothing but oligarchy and democracy, leaning rather to oligarchy.
  6     II, VI  |            should not be composed of democracy and monarchy. There is also
  7     II, IX  |        aristocracy has turned into a democracy. The Ephoralty certainly
  8     II, XI  |     government, some incline more to democracy and some to oligarchy. The
  9     II, XII |     established the ancient Athenian democracy, and harmonized the different
 10     II, XII |          citizens, thus creating the democracy, which is the very reason
 11     II, XII |            changed into the existing democracy. Ephialtes and Pericles
 12     II, XII |           increased the power of the democracy until it became what we
 13    III, I   |             He who is a citizen in a democracy will often not be a citizen
 14    III, I   |          adapted to the citizen of a democracy; but not necessarily to
 15    III, III |          oligarchy or a tyranny to a democracy. In such cases persons refuse
 16    III, III |             and then the acts of the democracy will be neither more nor
 17    III, IV  |           acquired under the extreme democracy. Certainly the good man
 18    III, VII |           constitutional government, democracy. For tyranny is a kind of
 19    III, VII |             interest of the wealthy; democracy, of the needy: none of them
 20    III, VIII|           government in their hands; democracy, the opposite, when the
 21    III, VIII|           the distinction drawn. For democracy is said to be the government
 22    III, VIII|           few and the wealthy, and a democracy that in which the many and
 23    III, VIII|              greater number, as in a democracy, or the smaller number,
 24    III, VIII|              real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty
 25    III, VIII|             the poor rule, that is a democracy. But as a fact the rich
 26    III, IX  |         definitions of oligarchy and democracy, and what is justice oligarchical
 27    III, XI  |         principle can apply to every democracy, and to all bodies of men,
 28    III, XVI |   governments, as, for example, in a democracy or aristocracy, there may
 29     IV, I   |            there is only one kind of democracy and one of oligarchy. But
 30     IV, I   |           more than one form both of democracy and of oligarchy.~
 31     IV, II  |              tyranny, oligarchy, and democracy. Of kingly rule and of aristocracy,
 32     IV, II  |              tyranny, oligarchy, and democracy.~It is obvious which of
 33     IV, II  |            way from aristocracy, and democracy is the most tolerable of
 34     IV, II  |            the rest being virtuous), democracy is the worst, but the best
 35     IV, II  |     constitution there are (since of democracy and oligarchy there are
 36     IV, II  |             whom each is suited. For democracy may meet the needs of some
 37     IV, II  |            various forms, whether of democracy or of oligarchy; and lastly, (
 38     IV, III |            said to be only two forms—democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy
 39     IV, III |            government to be really a democracy, just as among the winds
 40     IV, IV  |             are fond of saying, that democracy is simply that form of government
 41     IV, IV  |              will say that this is a democracy. In like manner, if the
 42     IV, IV  |            we should rather say that democracy is the form of government
 43     IV, IV  |         small. And yet oligarchy and democracy are not sufficiently distinguished
 44     IV, IV  |              the government is not a democracy in which the freemen, being
 45     IV, IV  |            of many). Neither is it a democracy when the rich have the government
 46     IV, IV  |              form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also
 47     IV, IV  |              two kinds of government—democracy and oligarchy.~I have already
 48     IV, IV  |              different forms both of democracy and oligarchy, as will indeed
 49     IV, IV  |             differences.~Of forms of democracy first comes that which is
 50     IV, IV  |      strictly on equality. In such a democracy the law says that it is
 51     IV, IV  |           are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained
 52     IV, IV  |     government must necessarily be a democracy. Here then is one sort of
 53     IV, IV  |             Here then is one sort of democracy. There is another, in which
 54     IV, IV  |              before. A fifth form of democracy, in other respects the same,
 55     IV, IV  |              all events this sort of democracy, which is now a monarch,
 56     IV, IV  |          held in honor; this sort of democracy being relatively to other
 57     IV, IV  |         office is undermined. Such a democracy is fairly open to the objection
 58     IV, IV  |             constitution. So that if democracy be a real form of government,
 59     IV, IV  |        decrees is clearly not even a democracy in the true sense of the
 60     IV, IV  |           are the different kinds of democracy.~
 61     IV, V   |           the last-mentioned form of democracy among democracies; and in
 62     IV, V   |          constitution may incline to democracy, but may be administered
 63     IV, VI  |            them. This is one sort of democracy, and these are the causes
 64     IV, VI  |             leisure. Hence in such a democracy the supreme power is vested
 65     IV, VI  |          must rule. A fourth kind of democracy is that which comes latest
 66     IV, VI  |        analogous to the last sort of democracy.~
 67     IV, VII |              still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them
 68     IV, VII |         monarchy, (2) oligarchy, (3) democracy, and (4) the so-called aristocracy
 69     IV, VII |            and the two principles of democracy and virtue temper each other.
 70     IV, VIII|       clearer now that oligarchy and democracy have been defined. For polity
 71     IV, VIII|              fusion of oligarchy and democracy; but the term is usually
 72     IV, VIII|     government which incline towards democracy, and the term aristocracy
 73     IV, VIII|          oligarchy, and freedom of a democracy. In all of them there of
 74     IV, VIII|          states other than monarchy, democracy, and oligarchy, and what
 75     IV, IX  |            the side of oligarchy and democracy the so-called polity or
 76     IV, IX  |          comparison of oligarchy and democracy; we must ascertain their
 77     IV, IX  |            electing to offices, from democracy the disregard of qualification.
 78     IV, IX  |          true union of oligarchy and democracy when the same state may
 79     IV, IX  |         state may be termed either a democracy or an oligarchy; those who
 80     IV, IX  |              is often described as a democracy, because it has many democratical
 81     IV, XI  |           there may arise an extreme democracy, or a pure oligarchy; or
 82     IV, XI  |              out of the most rampant democracy, or out of an oligarchy;
 83     IV, XI  |           arises either oligarchy or democracy. There is another reason—
 84     IV, XI  |              the one party sets up a democracy and the other an oligarchy.
 85     IV, XI  |              there are many kinds of democracy and many of oligarchy, it
 86     IV, XII |            there will naturally be a democracy, varying in form with the
 87     IV, XII |            number, the first form of democracy will then arise; if the
 88     IV, XIII|              generally supposed; for democracy, as well as other constitutions,
 89     IV, XIV |             all is characteristic of democracy; this is the sort of equality
 90     IV, XIV |   magistrates. In another variety of democracy the citizen form one assembly,
 91     IV, XIV |           required. A fourth form of democracy is when all the citizens
 92     IV, XIV |           the last and worst form of democracy, corresponding, as we maintain,
 93     IV, XIV |            it is for the interest of democracy, according to the most prevalent
 94     IV, XIV |              of that extreme form of democracy in which the people are
 95     IV, XV  |           different? For example, in democracy, oligarchy, aristocracy,
 96     IV, XV  |              council disappears when democracy has taken that extreme form
 97     IV, XV  |         aristocracy rather than to a democracy; for how can the magistrates
 98     IV, XV  |          fought together against the democracy. They may be appointed either (
 99      V, I   |              have already explained. Democracy, for example, arises out
100      V, I   |             other, for example, from democracy into oligarchy, and from
101      V, I   |              and from oligarchy into democracy, or from either of them
102      V, I   |             less oligarchical, and a democracy more or less democratical;
103      V, I   |       principal forms of government, democracy and oligarchy; for good
104      V, I   |       proportionate in others.~Still democracy appears to be safer and
105      V, I   |          more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is
106      V, III |            bad administration of the democracy led to its ruin. At Megara
107      V, III |            At Megara the fall of the democracy was due to a defeat occasioned
108      V, III |         anarchy. And at Syracuse the democracy aroused contempt before
109      V, III |            in consequence becoming a democracy; or as was the case at Argos,
110      V, IV  |        change into oligarchy or into democracy or into a constitutional
111      V, IV  |            the sea, strengthened the democracy. At Argos, the notables,
112      V, IV  |            attempted to put down the democracy. At Syracuse, the people,
113      V, IV  |       constitutional government into democracy. At Chalcis, the people,
114      V, V   |              of examples. At Cos the democracy was overthrown because wicked
115      V, V   |             combine and put down the democracy. The democracy at Heraclea
116      V, V   |              down the democracy. The democracy at Heraclea was overthrown
117      V, V   |           body and put an end to the democracy. Much in the same manner
118      V, V   |          Much in the same manner the democracy at Megara was overturned;
119      V, V   |              thing happened with the democracy of Cyme, which was overthrown
120      V, V   |        ancient to the latest form of democracy; for where there is a popular
121      V, VI  |             but at Istros ended in a democracy, and at Heraclea was enlarged
122      V, VI  |             say, from those forms of democracy and oligarchy which are
123      V, VII |    ill-mingling of the two elements, democracy and oligarchy; in the latter,
124      V, VII |               of the three elements, democracy, oligarchy, and virtue,
125      V, VII |           and virtue, but especially democracy and oligarchy. For to combine
126      V, VII |           and those which incline to democracy constitutional governments.
127      V, VII | constitutional government becoming a democracy, an aristocracy an oligarchy.
128      V, VII |          aristocracy may change into democracy. This happens when the poor,
129      V, VII |             never have happened in a democracy, or in a wellbalanced aristocracy.~
130      V, VIII|        equality which the friends of democracy seek to establish for the
131      V, VIII|            numerous become a kind of democracy, and therefore demagogues
132      V, VIII|    constitutional government becomes democracy, and oligarchy either constitutional
133      V, VIII|         constitutional government or democracy.~It is a principle common
134      V, VIII|             is a principle common to democracy, oligarchy, and every other
135      V, VIII|     government, whether oligarchy or democracy or any other. And for a
136      V, VIII|             then and then only could democracy and aristocracy be combined;
137      V, VIII|          office, which is the aim of democracy, and the notables would
138      V, VIII|             also expedient both in a democracy and in an oligarchy to assign
139      V, VIII|               i.e., to the rich in a democracy and to the poor in an oligarchy)
140      V, IX  |              in states. Oligarchy or democracy, although a departure from
141      V, IX  |              save and what destroy a democracy, and what oligarchical measures
142      V, IX  |              of an oligarchy or of a democracy is made possible. Whereas
143      V, IX  |     principles are characteristic of democracy, the government of the majority
144      V, X   |            compound of oligarchy and democracy in their most extreme forms;
145      V, X   |            has all the vices both of democracy and oligarchy is evident.
146      V, X   |            and dispersing them. From democracy tyrants have borrowed the
147      V, X   |              can, do what they will. Democracy is antagonistic to tyranny,
148      V, X   |              for the extreme form of democracy is tyranny; and royalty
149      V, X   |              and the extreme form of democracy, may be assumed to affect
150      V, XI  |           the last and worst form of democracy are all found in tyrannies.
151      V, XII |           oligarchy, and this into a democracy, and this again into a tyranny.
152      V, XII |        happens quite as often; for a democracy is even more likely to change
153      V, XII |        Antileon did at Chalcis; into democracy, as that of Gelo’s family
154      V, XII |              at Carthage, which is a democracy. there is no such prohibition;
155      V, XII |            change an the same into a democracy, if the poor form the majority;
156      V, XII |             form the majority; and a democracy may change into an oligarchy,
157      V, XII |          then more often pass into a democracy than into any other form
158     VI, I   |           what causes they arise.~Of democracy and all other forms of government
159     VI, I   |          shown already what forms of democracy are suited to particular
160     VI, I   |         First of all let us speak of democracy, which will also bring to
161     VI, I   |      elements and characteristics of democracy, since from the combinations
162     VI, I   |            others, not only does the democracy become better or worse,
163     VI, I   |    properties and characteristics of democracy, when variously combined,
164     VI, I   |           make a difference. For one democracy will have less and another
165     VI, I   |           establish some new form of democracy, or only to remodel an existing
166     VI, II  |            be the great end of every democracy. One principle of liberty
167     VI, II  |         equality, and therefore in a democracy the poor have more power
168     VI, II  |             second characteristic of democracy, whence has arisen the claim
169     VI, II  |               the characteristics of democracy are as follows the election
170     VI, II  |           The next characteristic of democracy is payment for services;
171     VI, II  |              education, the notes of democracy appear to be the opposite
172     VI, II  |              to all democracies; but democracy and demos in their truest
173     VI, IV  |              IV~Of the four kinds of democracy, as was said in the in the
174     VI, IV  |             For the best material of democracy is an agricultural population;
175     VI, IV  |              difficulty in forming a democracy where the mass of the people
176     VI, IV  |      government may be regarded as a democracy, and was such at Mantinea.
177     VI, IV  |           the aforementioned type of democracy that all should elect to
178     VI, IV  |             this is the best kind of democracy, and why? Because the people
179     VI, IV  |    difficulty in making an excellent democracy or constitutional government;
180     VI, IV  |           the first and best form of democracy should be constituted; it
181     VI, IV  |         lower kind.~The last form of democracy, that in which all share
182     VI, IV  |           order to constitute such a democracy and strengthen the people,
183     VI, IV  |           sort comes amiss to such a democracy. This is the way in which
184     VI, IV  |         excited and impatient of the democracy, as in the insurrection
185     VI, IV  |            increase the power of the democracy at Athens, or such as were
186     VI, IV  |        useful in the extreme form of democracy. Fresh tribes and brotherhoods
187     VI, V   |              mere establishment of a democracy is not the only or principal
188     VI, V   |          give the greatest amount of democracy or oligarchy, but that which
189     VI, V   |           the last and worst form of democracy the citizens are very numerous,
190     VI, V   |          lowers the character of the democracy; measures therefore should
191     VI, VI  |            the corresponding form of democracy.~The first and best attempered
192     VI, VI  |             answering to the extreme democracy, which, being the worst,
193     VI, VI  |           necessity tha number is to democracy in the place of justice
194     VI, VIII|             events it presides, in a democracy, over the assembly. For
195     VI, VIII|              deliberations, but in a democracy more commonly "councillors."
196    VII, XI  |           monarchy, but a plain to a democracy; neither to an aristocracy,
197   VIII, I   |        preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the
198   VIII, I   |       character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy