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Constitution: a constitution is the supreme law of a state. It sets out the fundamental principles by which the state is governed, such as the powers of the government, the rights of the citizens, and the relationship between the government and the citizens.
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Plato on Constitution - Dictionary of Arguments

Höffe I 39
Constitution/Platon/Höffe: In Politicos(1) Plato anticipates the scheme of six constitutions that was traced back to Aristotle.
For he distinguishes in the
- monarchy the kingship of the tyranny, in the
- rule of some the aristocracy from the oligarchy and for
- Democracy the one that binds itself to laws, from the one that refuses to be bound by them.
Unlike Aristotle, however, he pleads for the rule of a royal man bound by no laws.
>Constitution/Aristotle.

1. 291d ff.


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The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Höffe I
Otfried Höffe
Geschichte des politischen Denkens München 2016


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