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GREEK DEMOCRACY AND GREEK OLIGARCHY
§ 2. Causes of different species of democracies, 446. Main varieties of democracy:
(a) Democracy of farmers, 448. Farmer democracy and the ancestral
constitution, 449. (b) and (c) Middle forms of democracy, 451. (d)
Extreme democracy; its origin and character, 452. Means of preserving
extreme democracy, 454. Extreme democracy at Athens, 455. Views of
democracy entertained by Thucydides, Plato, and Aristotle, 459. Comparison
of Aristotle's views of democracy with modern views, 460. Modern demo-
cracy combined with representative institutions, 461. Need of a strong
executive in modern democracies, 463. Ancient democracy not aristocratic,
463. Real differentia of ancient democracy; centralisation of all power in
one primary assembly, 464
§ 3. Varieties of oligarchy, 466. Two main forms of oligarchy, 468. Estimate of
the meaning of Greek oligarchy, 470. Deterioration of oligarchy in the
fourth century, 470
THE MIXED CONSTITUTION
§ 4. The need of a non-sectional government, 471. Doctrine of the Mean, 472.
The "mean" State not the ideal State, 473. Rule of the middle class, 474.
Why the middle class was ineffective in Greek politics, 475. "Polity" a
mixed constitution, 477. Instances of mixed constitutions, 478. Previous
history of the conception of a mixed constitution, 480. The mixed consti-
tution in later Greek theory, 482. Montesquieu's theory of a division of
powers, 484. The mixed constitution in regard to the classification of
States, 485
THE THEORY OF SEDITION AND ITS CURES
§ 5. Causes of στάσις , 486. Economics and politics, 488. Methods of preserving
constitutions, 489. Tyranny -- its rise and character, 492. Preservation of
tyranny, 494
EPILOGUE
THE LATER HISTORY OF THE POLITICS
§ 1. The death of the City-State, 497. Stoic cosmopolitanism, 498. Political
theory of the Mediæval Church, 499.
§ 2. Adoption of Aristotle by the Mediæval Church, 500. Preparation for
Aristotle, 501. Reception of Aristotle, 504. St. Thomas Aquinas, 505.
The school of Aquinas, 508. Dante, 509. Marsilio of Padua, 510. Machia-
velli, 515

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