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 1     II, XI  |       that they should choose the supreme council of 100, and should
 2     II, XII |         blamed. For in giving the supreme power to the law courts,
 3    III, VI  |        democracies the people are supreme, but in oligarchies, the
 4    III, VII |          government, which is the supreme authority in states, must
 5    III, VII |         the fighting-men have the supreme power, and those who possess
 6    III, X   |           as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: Is it
 7    III, X   |       will be the reply), for the supreme authority justly willed
 8    III, X   |         the good to rule and have supreme power? But in that case
 9    III, X   |        human passion, to have the supreme power, rather than the law.
10    III, XI  |         the multitude ought to be supreme rather than the few best
11    III, XI  |       people, for the assembly is supreme in all such matters. Yet
12    III, XI  |        laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate
13    III, XIII|           if the people are to be supreme because they are stronger
14    III, XV  |        single man should have the supreme power in all things? The
15    III, XVI |          one person is often made supreme over the administration
16    III, XVII|           be the royal family and supreme over all, or that this one
17    III, XVII|           that he should have the supreme power, and that mankind
18     IV, IV  |  government, but still the law is supreme. In another, everybody,
19     IV, IV  |        government, but the law is supreme as before. A fifth form
20     IV, IV  |           the multitude, have the supreme power, and supersede the
21     IV, IV  |        but where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring
22     IV, IV  | constitution. The law ought to be supreme over all, and the magistracies
23     IV, V   |         which the magistrates are supreme and not the law. Among oligarchies
24     IV, VI  |        moderate fortunes have the supreme power, the government is
25     IV, VI  |           in such a democracy the supreme power is vested in the laws,
26     IV, XIV |         they and not the laws are supreme—the government is of necessity
27     IV, XIV |           in which the people are supreme even over the laws), with
28     IV, XIV |        deliberative, that is, the supreme element in states.~
29      V, V   |          of the Prytanis, who had supreme authority in many important
30      V, X   |         of making some individual supreme over the highest offices.
31      V, X   |     voluntary subjects, and he is supreme in all important matters;
32     VI, I   |  varieties of the deliberative or supreme power in states, and the
33     VI, II  |         that the majority must be supreme, and that whatever the majority
34     VI, II  |           will of the majority is supreme. This, then, is one note
35     VI, II  |       that the assembly should be supreme over all causes, or at any
36     VI, VIII|         there is another which is supreme over them, and to this is
37     VI, VIII|           body which convenes the supreme authority in the state.
38    VII, II  |     deemed honorable, are not the supreme end of all things, but only
39    VII, III |           may still maintain that supreme power is the best of all