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CHAPTER V
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50), and the motives even of tyrannicides are very rarely pure (pp.

53-54).

The governments established by the liberals are full of defects.

The Consiglio Grande, for example, of the Florentines is ignorant in its choice of magistrates, unjust in its apportionment of taxes, scarcely less prejudiced against individuals than a tyrant would be, and incapable of diplomatic foreign policy (pp.

58-69).


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