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Aristotle quotes on democracyDemocracy is the least vicious of all, since herein the form of the constitution undergoes least change Now he is desirous to have his whole plan of government neither a democracy nor an oligarchy, but Source: Aristotle, Poetics There are three points in the constitution of Solon which appear to be its most democratic features: first and most important, the prohibition of loans on the security of the debtor's person; secondly, the right of every person who so willed to claim redress on behalf of any one to whom wrong was being done; thirdly, the institution of the appeal to the jurycourts; and it is to this last, they say, that the masses have owed their strength most of all, since, when the democracy is master of the voting-power, it is master of the constitution Quotes for: Aristotle Quotes
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