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    Laws in an aristocracy should ensure equality among the n... — Carmelics
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    Laws in an aristocracy should ensure equality among the nobles themselves and among noble families

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    • 1.When laws fail to maintain equality among nobles, the nobility loses its spirit of moderation
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    • 2.When the nobility loses its spirit of moderation, the aristocratic government becomes corrupted
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    • 1.Aristotle's polity demonstrates that stable mixed regimes require structured inequality between governing classes, not equality among them.
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    • 2.Enforced equality among nobles eliminates the competitive excellence (arete) that motivates nobles to serve the common good effectively.
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    • 3.A nobility rendered equal in wealth and status collapses into an oligarchic faction, as Aristotle observed in the Politics (1306b).
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    • 1.Machiavelli argues in the Discourses that aristocratic republics require dominant noble families to anchor political authority and prevent disorder.
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    • 2.Leveling laws among nobles destroy the hierarchical loyalties that subordinate lesser nobles to institutional order, per Machiavellian realism.
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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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