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    An aristocratic government will be corrupted if equality ... — Carmelics
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    An aristocratic government will be corrupted if equality among nobles is not maintained

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    • 1.The principle of aristocratic government is moderation
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    • 2.Inequality among nobles causes the nobility to abandon moderation
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    • 3.A government loses its proper character when its ruling principle is abandoned
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    • 1.Oligarchic competition among nobles can generate institutional checks that stabilize governance, as Machiavelli argued in the Discourses regarding Roman patrician conflict.
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    • 2.Enforced equality among nobles suppresses the ambition that motivates noble participation in government, removing the very energy aristocratic rule requires.
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    • 1.Hume's empirical analysis shows that durable aristocracies like Venice maintained stability through structured hierarchy among nobles, not equality.
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    • 2.If unequal nobles are still bound by shared interest in preserving aristocratic privilege against commoners, the ruling principle of moderation remains functionally intact.
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    In an aristocracy, one part of the people governs the rest. The principle of an aristocratic government is moderation, the virtue which leads those who govern in an aristocracy to restrain themselves both from oppressing the people and from trying to acquire excessive power over one another. In an aristocracy, the laws should be designed to instill and protect this spirit of moderation. To do so, they must do three things. First, the laws must prevent the nobility from abusing the people. The po
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