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an extended republic, he says, where numerous factions,
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in many ways, check and balance one another, compete with one
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another and therefore, avoid the dominance of a single
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faction leading to the kind of tyranny of the majority,
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the tyranny of the majority class.
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Aristotle's proposal for a mixture of oligarchy and democracy
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seems, in many ways, to anticipate,
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2,000 years before the fact, Madison's call for a government
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where powers must be separated and where
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he says in , ambition must be made to counteract
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ambition in order to avoid, in other words,
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the extremes of both tyranny and civil war.