Analects of the Core: Aristotle on democracy

December 3, 2010 at 12:30 pm

In anticipation of the debate on democracy being presented in CC101, consider this point made by Aristotle in Politics:

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

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