Sentence examples for ideal constitution from inspiring English sources

In this he advocates an aristocratic regime on the Venetian model as the ideal constitution for his city.

For Plato's ideal state is the best after the ideal state of Islam based on and centred in the Sharīʿah as the ideal constitution.

According to this charge, then, Plato's ideal constitution is a nowhere-utopia (ou-topia = "no place").

Again, in books VII-VIII, Aristotle describes the ideal constitution in which the citizens are fully virtuous.

So, the objection goes, Plato's ideal constitution fails to be an ideal-utopia (eu-topia = "good place").

Although his own political views were influenced by his teacher Plato, Aristotle is highly critical of the ideal constitution set forth in Plato's Republic on the grounds that it overvalues political unity, it embraces a system of communism that is impractical and inimical to human nature, and it neglects the happiness of the individual citizens (Politics II.1 5).

As noted above, Aristotle found it useful to classify actually existing governments in terms of three "ideal constitutions".

Ideal Constitutions in the Renaissance: Papers from the Munich February 2006 Conference.

A difficulty for this interpretation is that in book IV Aristotle regards the business of constructing ideal constitutions as perfectly compatible with that of addressing actual political problems.

Italians love American and feel pain when we slide away from the great ideals our Constitution and Bill of Rights have given the world.

It is clear, then, that we must distinguish those particular customs, institutions, and interests which tend to realize the ideal of each constitution, since men choose their means with reference to their ends.