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    The aristocratic polity is preferable to monarchy as a fo... — Carmelics
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    The aristocratic polity is preferable to monarchy as a form of civil governance

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    • 1.The aristocratic polity most resembles the communal state enjoyed before the Fall
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    • 2.The benevolent aristocracy fosters the contemplative life, communalism, and absence of corruptible governmental apparatus
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    • 3.The time of the Biblical judges exemplifies the benevolent aristocracy
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    • 1.Monarchy concentrates accountability in a single ruler whose failure is immediately visible and correctable, whereas aristocratic councils diffuse blame and enable collective corruption.
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    • 2.Aristotle's Politics demonstrates that rule by the few tends to degenerate into oligarchy more readily than monarchy degenerates into tyranny, making aristocracy statistically less stable.
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    • 1.The Biblical judges period was characterized by cyclical apostasy and the recurring phrase 'every man did what was right in his own eyes,' indicating aristocratic diffusion of authority produced moral disorder rather than communal virtue.
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    • 2.Augustine's City of God argues that post-lapsarian human nature requires coercive unified authority to restrain sin, and no pre-Fall governmental form can serve as a normative model for fallen political life.
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    Wyclif's definition of civil dominium as “proprietary lordship in a viator over the goods of fortune fully according to human law” is centered not on legislative authority, but on the private property ownership enjoyed by the viator, or wayfarer, along life's path (De Civili Dominio III ch. 11, p.178.9–17).[9] This is because all civil dominium is based on the use of goods owned, which is the basis for all postlapsarian conceptions of justice (recall that for Wyclif, only God truly owns create
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