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  1     II, VI  |              be neither democracy nor oligarchy, but something in a mean
  2     II, VI  |              because it is made up of oligarchy, monarchy, and democracy,
  3     II, VI  |             the council of elders the oligarchy while the democratic element
  4     II, VI  |             at all; it is nothing but oligarchy and democracy, leaning rather
  5     II, VI  |          democracy, leaning rather to oligarchy. This is seen in the mode
  6     II, X   |              suited rather to a close oligarchy than to a constitutional
  7     II, X   |              state, is really a close oligarchy.~The nobles have a habit,
  8     II, XI  |              to democracy and some to oligarchy. The kings and elders, if
  9     II, XI  |           aristocracy and inclines to oligarchy, chiefly on a point where
 10     II, XI  |           wealth be characteristic of oligarchy, and election for merit
 11     II, XI  |      successfully escape the evils of oligarchy by enriching one portion
 12     II, XII |              the exclusiveness of the oligarchy, emancipated the people,
 13    III, I   |                not the state, but the oligarchy or the tyrant. And the legislator
 14    III, I   |          often not be a citizen in an oligarchy. Leaving out of consideration
 15    III, III |             in the transition from an oligarchy or a tyranny to a democracy.
 16    III, III |             question than those of an oligarchy or of a tyranny. This question
 17    III, VII |              tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government,
 18    III, VII |         interest of the monarch only; oligarchy has in view the interest
 19    III, VIII|           over the political society; oligarchy is when men of property
 20    III, VIII|           their hands? In like manner oligarchy is said to be the government
 21    III, VIII|            governments accordingly—an oligarchy is said to be that in which
 22    III, VIII|              smaller number, as in an oligarchy, is an accident due to the
 23    III, VIII|      difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever
 24    III, VIII|               few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule,
 25    III, IX  |             the common definitions of oligarchy and democracy, and what
 26     IV, I   |               of democracy and one of oligarchy. But this is a mistake;
 27     IV, I   |              both of democracy and of oligarchy.~
 28     IV, II  |    corresponding perversions—tyranny, oligarchy, and democracy. Of kingly
 29     IV, II  |             the other forms, tyranny, oligarchy, and democracy.~It is obvious
 30     IV, II  |              a well-constituted form; oligarchy is little better, for it
 31     IV, II  |           constitutions are good (the oligarchy and the rest being virtuous),
 32     IV, II  |               defective, and that one oligarchy is not to be accounted better
 33     IV, II  |                since of democracy and oligarchy there are several): (2)
 34     IV, II  |             needs of some better than oligarchy, and conversely. In the
 35     IV, II  |            whether of democracy or of oligarchy; and lastly, (5) having
 36     IV, III |               two forms—democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered
 37     IV, III |            considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a
 38     IV, IV  |          majority rules; nor again is oligarchy that form of government
 39     IV, IV  |           have no share of office, an oligarchy. Therefore we should rather
 40     IV, IV  |              the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is
 41     IV, IV  |      according to beauty, would be an oligarchy; for the number of tall
 42     IV, IV  |    good-looking men is small. And yet oligarchy and democracy are not sufficiently
 43     IV, IV  |              majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble
 44     IV, IV  |              government—democracy and oligarchy.~I have already explained
 45     IV, IV  |           forms both of democracy and oligarchy, as will indeed be evident
 46     IV, V   |               privileged class, to an oligarchy. Another sort of oligarchy
 47     IV, V   |            oligarchy. Another sort of oligarchy is when the son succeeds
 48     IV, V   |              and in fact this sort of oligarchy receives the name of a dynasty (
 49     IV, VI  |               would be a step towards oligarchy; hence all who have acquired
 50     IV, VI  |               arises a second form of oligarchy. For the stronger they are,
 51     IV, VI  |            third and further stage of oligarchy, in which the governing
 52     IV, VI  |            This is the fourth sort of oligarchy, and is analogous to the
 53     IV, VII |           forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally
 54     IV, VII |               to be (1) monarchy, (2) oligarchy, (3) democracy, and (4)
 55     IV, VII |              so-called polity towards oligarchy.~
 56     IV, VIII|              will be clearer now that oligarchy and democracy have been
 57     IV, VIII|              generally as a fusion of oligarchy and democracy; but the term
 58     IV, VIII|           those which incline towards oligarchy, because birth and education
 59     IV, VIII|            virtue, as wealth is of an oligarchy, and freedom of a democracy.
 60     IV, VIII|              monarchy, democracy, and oligarchy, and what they are, and
 61     IV, IX  |           consider how by the side of oligarchy and democracy the so-called
 62     IV, IX  |       understood from a comparison of oligarchy and democracy; we must ascertain
 63     IV, IX  |               be taken from each—from oligarchy the principle of electing
 64     IV, IX  |              There is a true union of oligarchy and democracy when the same
 65     IV, IX  |              either a democracy or an oligarchy; those who use both names
 66     IV, IX  |         constitution is said to be an oligarchy, because it has many oligarchical
 67     IV, XI  |          extreme democracy, or a pure oligarchy; or a tyranny may grow out
 68     IV, XI  |               democracy, or out of an oligarchy; but it is not so likely
 69     IV, XI  |                and thus arises either oligarchy or democracy. There is another
 70     IV, XI  |            democracy and the other an oligarchy. Further, both the parties
 71     IV, XI  |              of democracy and many of oligarchy, it is not difficult to
 72     IV, XII |              short in quantity, there oligarchy arises, similarly assuming
 73     IV, XIV |         maintain, to the close family oligarchy and to tyranny, is at present
 74     IV, XIV |               of this moderation, the oligarchy inclines towards polity.
 75     IV, XIV |              the government is a pure oligarchy. Or, again, when those who
 76     IV, XV  |            For example, in democracy, oligarchy, aristocracy, monarchy,
 77     IV, XV  |              the state inclines to an oligarchy: or rather the probuli must
 78      V, I   |               to be absolutely equal. Oligarchy is based on the notion that
 79      V, I   |          example, from democracy into oligarchy, and from oligarchy into
 80      V, I   |              into oligarchy, and from oligarchy into democracy, or from
 81      V, I   |           form of government, whether oligarchy, or monarchy, or any other,
 82      V, I   |              a question of degree; an oligarchy, for example, may become
 83      V, I   |             government, democracy and oligarchy; for good birth and virtue
 84      V, I   |             liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there
 85      V, I   |     approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the
 86      V, III |               a monarchy, or a family oligarchy. And therefore, in some
 87      V, III |            government changes into an oligarchy or a government of families.
 88      V, III |          Heracleodorus to office, the oligarchy was overthrown, and changed
 89      V, IV  |          Governments also change into oligarchy or into democracy or into
 90      V, V   |               people, established the oligarchy. The same thing happened
 91      V, VI  |               himself a member of the oligarchy, as Lygdamis at Naxos, who
 92      V, VI  |             together. At Massalia the oligarchy became more like a constitutional
 93      V, VI  |            600. At Cnidos, again, the oligarchy underwent a considerable
 94      V, VI  |              at the narrowness of the oligarchy and changed the constitution.~(
 95      V, VI  |         themselves (for, although the oligarchy are quite a small number,
 96      V, VI  |            the people. Changes in the oligarchy also occur when the oligarchs
 97      V, VI  |               with the rulers. But an oligarchy which is at unity with itself
 98      V, VI  |               overthrown when another oligarchy is created within the original
 99      V, VI  |             the Lacedaemonian elders. Oligarchy is liable to revolutions
100      V, VI  |               Diagoras overturned the oligarchy of the knights because he
101      V, VI  |           despotism; for example, the oligarchy at Cnidus and at Chios.~
102      V, VI  |            manner as to include in an oligarchy a few only, or in a constitutional
103      V, VI  |          those forms of democracy and oligarchy which are regulated by law
104      V, VII |              aristocracy is a sort of oligarchy, and, like an oligarchy,
105      V, VII |               oligarchy, and, like an oligarchy, is the government of a
106      V, VII |               elements, democracy and oligarchy; in the latter, of the three
107      V, VII |            three elements, democracy, oligarchy, and virtue, but especially
108      V, VII |              especially democracy and oligarchy. For to combine these is
109      V, VII |           Those which incline more to oligarchy are called aristocracies,
110      V, VII |          democracy, an aristocracy an oligarchy. But the process may be
111      V, VII |              the government tended to oligarchy, and they were able to encroach....
112      V, VII | aristocratical governments incline to oligarchy, the notables are apt to
113      V, VII |            who established a dynastic oligarchy.~All constitutions are overthrown
114      V, VIII|             government passes into an oligarchy, and an oligarchy is narrowed
115      V, VIII|             into an oligarchy, and an oligarchy is narrowed to a rule of
116      V, VIII|     government becomes democracy, and oligarchy either constitutional government
117      V, VIII|        principle common to democracy, oligarchy, and every other form of
118      V, VIII|               the government, whether oligarchy or democracy or any other.
119      V, VIII|      torch-races, and the like. In an oligarchy, on the other hand, great
120      V, VIII|              in a democracy and in an oligarchy to assign to those who have
121      V, VIII|       democracy and to the poor in an oligarchy) an equality or preference
122      V, IX  |              equally holds in states. Oligarchy or democracy, although a
123      V, IX  |           measures save or destroy an oligarchy. For neither the one nor
124      V, IX  |             which the existence of an oligarchy or of a democracy is made
125      V, IX  |             of the ruling class in an oligarchy live in luxury, but the
126      V, X   |              tyranny is a compound of oligarchy and democracy in their most
127      V, X   |           vices both of democracy and oligarchy is evident. As of oligarchy
128      V, X   |           oligarchy is evident. As of oligarchy so of tyranny, the end is
129      V, X   |              and most unmixed form of oligarchy, and the extreme form of
130      V, XII |      government are so short-lived as oligarchy and tyranny. The tyranny
131      V, XII |          constitution changes into an oligarchy, and this into a democracy,
132      V, XII |              likely to change into an oligarchy than into a monarchy. Further,
133      V, XII |             that of Cleisthenes; into oligarchy, as the tyranny of Antileon
134      V, XII |               at Lacedaemon. Often an oligarchy changes into a tyranny,
135      V, XII |              Sicily; for example, the oligarchy at Leontini changed into
136      V, XII |           that the state changes into oligarchy merely because the ruling
137      V, XII |            too for him to say that an oligarchy is two cities, one of the
138      V, XII |               was before, and yet the oligarchy may change an the same into
139      V, XII |          democracy may change into an oligarchy, if the wealthy class are
140      V, XII |               no great matter, and an oligarchy does not even then more
141     VI, I   |        particular cities, and what of oligarchy to particular peoples, and
142     VI, I   |            government commonly called oligarchy. For the purposes of this
143     VI, II  |           meals together. And whereas oligarchy is characterized by birth,
144     VI, V   |       greatest amount of democracy or oligarchy, but that which will make
145     VI, VI  |              and compare each form of oligarchy with the corresponding form
146     VI, VI  |         little, gives another form of oligarchy; until at length we reach
147     VI, VI  |        whereas the preservation of an oligarchy clearly depends on an opposite
148     VI, VII |            for cavalry, then a strong oligarchy is likely to be established.
149     VI, VII |            horses. The second form of oligarchy prevails when the country
150     VI, VII |              two parties quarrel, the oligarchy are often worsted by them
151     VI, VII |        cavalry and heavy infantry. An oligarchy which raises such a force
152     VI, VII |              warriors in reality. The oligarchy should also yield a share
153    VII, XI  |             acropolis is suited to an oligarchy or a monarchy, but a plain
154   VIII, I   |       democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy; and always
155   VIII, I   |        character of oligarchy creates oligarchy; and always the better the