Popular government
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
popular government · Athenian democracy · a popular state · democracy · democratic government · the people's hands
in the texts
On the Commonwealth
Rule where power resides in the whole people, one of the three classic constitutional forms discussed.
And that is a popular state (for so they call it) in which all things are in the people's hands.
and though the Massiliots, our clients, are ruled with the utmost justice by chosen and leading citizens, yet there is in that condition a certain likeness of servitude in the people;
Against Timocrates
The democratic constitution whose laws, courts, and equal citizenship the speaker claims to defend.
For I suppose that no man living will attribute the prosperity of Athens, her liberty, her popular government, to anything rather than to the laws.
That our tribunals, composed under popular government of men who have taken the judicial oath, are guilty of the same iniquities as the tribunals of the Thirty Tyrants?
Well, the defendant condemns as illegal acts done under popular government, exactly as you condemned the acts of the tyranny;
Memorabilia
Rule by the people, which Socrates says cannot be understood without knowing what the people are.
However, as the state you are preparing yourself to direct is governed by the people, no doubt you know what popular government is?
I think so, certainly.