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    It is not the case that Aristocracy is a superior regime form to monarchy

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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