Chomsky on Madison

[Brad De Long]

>
>Aristotle suggests that polity is probably the best that can
>be achieved in practical terms and this is a form of rule by
>the many not the few....
>     Cheers, Ken Hanly

Touche...

But Aristotle's "polity" looks a lot more like what we would call an 
"oligarchy"--slaves and metics and women, no? And Aristotle does not 
think that "polity" is a form of government that can sustain itself 
over any extent of territory greater than what we would think of as 
one small town...

Brad DeLong