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Book SynopsisAncient Greeks and Romans often wrote that the best form of government consists of a mixture of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. Political writers in the early modern period applied this idea to government in England, Venice, and Florence, and Americans used it in designing their constitution. In this history of political thought James Blythe
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Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPt. 1The Mixed ConstitutionCh. 1Introduction3Ch. 2The Mixed Constitution in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages13Pt. 2Thomas Aquinas and His SuccessorsCh. 3Thomas Aquinas39Ch. 4Giles of Rome60Ch. 5Peter of Auvergne77Ch. 6Ptolemy of Lucca92Ch. 7Engelbert of Admont118Ch. 8John of Paris139Pt. 3The Fourteenth CenturyCh. 9Aristotelian Political Thought In the Fourteenth Century161Ch. 10Relativism and the Best Polity165Ch. 11Kingship, Popular Sovereignty, and the Mixed Constitution180Ch. 12Nicole Oresme and the Synthesis of Aristotelian Political Thought203Pt. 4The Fifteenth Century and the Early Modern PeriodCh. 13Conciliarism243Ch. 14Later Theories of Mixed Government in England and Northern Europe260Ch. 15The Mixed Constitution and Italian Republicanism278Ch. 16Conclusion301Bibliography309Index337
