Ancient Greeks and Romans often wrote that the best form of
government consists of a mixture of monarchy, aristocracy, and
democracy. Political writers in the early modern period applied
this idea to government in England, Venice, and Florence, and
Americans used it in designing their constitution. In this history
of political thought James Blythe investigates what happened to the
concept of mixed constitution during the Middle Ages, when the work
of the Greek historian Polybius, the source of many of the formal
elements of early modern theory, was unknown in Latin. Although it
is generally argued that Renaissance and early modern theories of
mixed constitution derived from the revival of classical Polybian
models, Blythe demonstrates the pervasiveness of such ideas in high
and late medieval thought. The author traces medieval Aristotelian
theories concerning the best form of government and concludes that
most endorsed a limited monarchy sharing many features with the
mixed constitution. He also shows that the major early modern ideas
of mixed constitutionalism stemmed from medieval and Aristotelian
thought, which partially explains the enthusiastic reception of
Polybius in the sixteenth century.
Originally published in 1992.
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