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Stranger
People nowadays are likely to take into consideration enforced subjection and voluntary obedience, poverty and wealth, law and lawlessness as they occur in governments, and so they divide two of the forms we mentioned, giving to the two aspects of monarchy the two names tyranny and royalty.Younger Socrates
Certainly.Stranger
And the state that is ruled by the few is called, as the case may be, aristocracy or oligarchy.Younger Socrates
To be sure.Stranger
In the case of democracy, however,
People nowadays are likely to take into consideration enforced subjection and voluntary obedience, poverty and wealth, law and lawlessness as they occur in governments, and so they divide two of the forms we mentioned, giving to the two aspects of monarchy the two names tyranny and royalty.Younger Socrates
Certainly.Stranger
And the state that is ruled by the few is called, as the case may be, aristocracy or oligarchy.Younger Socrates
To be sure.Stranger
In the case of democracy, however,