HKB
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Often appears with: rank, class, and social order · political legitimacy and consent · mixed constitution · free state as blended government · constitutions and founding law · census as middle term
Usually: argument (1) · crisis of belief (1) · detachment (1)
He describes how a free state arises through blending democracy and oligarchy by combining shared rules, using a middle census between extremes, and mixing selection methods, using Lacedaemon as an example of a stable “medium.”
We shall next proceed to show how that government which is peculiarly called a state arises alongside of democracy and oligarchy, and how it ought to be established; and this will at the same time show what are the proper boundaries of both these governments, for we must mark out wherein they differ from one another, and then from both these compose a state of such parts of each of them as will show from whence they …