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    A large council of citizens should deliberate with and ho... — Carmelics
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    A large council of citizens should deliberate with and hold the monarch accountable as a central constitutional check.

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    • 1.A single ruler vesting all authority in himself tends toward neglect of the general welfare.
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    • 2.A council composed of citizens introduces distributed deliberation that counterbalances monarchic self-interest.
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    • 1.Large deliberative councils are structurally prone to factional manipulation, as Madison argued in Federalist No. 10 regarding majority faction tyranny.
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    • 2.A council that reflects popular passions rather than reason may constrain the monarch toward worse, not better, policy outcomes.
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    • 1.Hobbes demonstrated that divided sovereignty—where council and monarch share authority—creates jurisdictional conflict that dissolves political order entirely.
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    • 2.Constitutional accountability mechanisms presuppose a higher arbiter to resolve disputes between council and monarch, generating infinite regress of authority.
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    Given that the fundamental aim of the state is peace, the question that Spinoza seeks to address in chapters 6 and 7 of the Political Treatise is how a monarchy is to be organized so as to be maximally peaceful. He begins by repeating the claim that men are largely irrational and selfish. And since the passions of common men must be regulated, it is tempting to suppose, as Hobbes does, that heavy-handed governance is required. But Spinoza claims that even if a despot is able to minimize violence
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