When Aristotle wrote his treatise on politics, he explained in some detail his most practical regime, the one that was possible to implement in most nations. His practical regime was very close to what we would in these times call a republican constitution.
It was the English philosopher, John Locke, who showed the world why a republican government dedicated to the production of wealth was consistent with natural right.
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