Chomsky on Madison

[Brad De Long]

>But the original Chomsky stuff that was quoted noted that
>women and slaves were not citizens as well as I recall. The
>point is that polity is a form of rule of the many. We still
>mean by oligarchy rule by the few.On size of a state. I
>recall that Aristotle wanted to be able to call citizens to
>meetings
>and have them able to show up.

Which means that your "many" ain't so many in modern context...