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In every regime one of these groups, he says,
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will be the dominant class, will be the dominant body, the ruling body,
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as he says, in that definition and that ruling body will in turn,
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he says, define the nature of the regime.
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But Aristotle tells us something more than this.
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A regime, his regime typology is, to say, his division of power,
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his division of regimes
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and to the rule of the one, the few and the many
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is based not only on how powers are distributed in a purely factual way,
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he also distinguishes between regimes that are well ordered,
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well governed, and those that are corrupt.
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What does he mean in terms of this distinction?