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    Aristocracy is a superior regime form to monarchy — Carmelics
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    Aristocracy is a superior regime form to monarchy

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    • 1.Absoluteness indicates a norm equivalent to peace, which is the cardinal civil norm
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    • 2.Aristocracies are more absolute than monarchies
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    • 3.Declaring one regime more absolute than another amounts to declaring its superiority
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    • 1.Unity of command in a single sovereign prevents the factional deadlock and oligarchic competition endemic to aristocratic councils.
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    • 2.Hobbes demonstrates that divided sovereignty produces civil instability worse than any monarchical inefficiency.
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    • 3.Spinoza's own criterion of absoluteness is undermined when patrician factions paralyze collective aristocratic decision-making.
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    • 1.Monarchs bear personal, concentrated consequences for misrule, creating stronger incentives for good governance than diffuse aristocratic bodies.
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    • 2.Machiavelli's analysis shows princes who identify their glory with state flourishing outperform self-interested noble councils in sustaining civic order.
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    Given that there will generally be more checks on authority and a greater diffusion of political power in aristocracies than in monarchies, we should not find it surprising that Spinoza claims that aristocracies are likely to be more absolute than monarchies (8/7), since a state is “absolute” to the extent that it incorporates the rights of all its members and minimizes the basis for dissent (8/3, 8/4, 8/7; Steinberg 2018b). Absoluteness thus indicates a norm very much like peace, the cardinal
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