Re: Republic or Monarchy?
An elected aristocratic system should follow a hierarchy in the election system. Democratic popular elections should only exist at the level of the community (i.e. town, village, ..), to elect their local representatives. These local elected representatives, in turn, would elect the following political class in the scale. And so forth.
The high posts of this pyramid should only be elected among people with a high status in society. Such status should only be achieved through a meritocracy.
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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