any republic, and to apply the type of solutions that the ancients used in like cases; or finding none which have been used by them, to try new ones, such as they might have used in similar circumstances." Bk 1, Chapter XXXIX "... it is the well-being, not of individuals, but of the community which makes a State great; and, without question, this universal well-being is nowhere secured save in a republic." -Bk II, Chapter II Section 8​