This is totally and profoundly dorky.
Aristotle's preferred regime was *not* a democracy with a limited degree of inequality--that's Rousseau. Aristotle's preferred regime was an oligarchy in which the narrow elite had the leisure to engage in philosophy and rule justly...
Madison believed that improvements in the science of government since Aristotle's time allowed a representative democracy to function without running into the insoluble problems pointed out by Aristotle...
Jeez. Let's have at least *some* actual contact with the doctrines advocated by the ancient sources...
Brad DeLong