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BOOK 11. REVIEW OF IDEAL STATES 
A. Ideal states in theory (cc. i-viii) 
1. Plato’s Republic (cc. 1-v) . 
2. Plato’s Laws (c. vi) . 
3. Phaleas of Chalcedon (c. vii) 
¢. Hippodamus of Miletus (c. viii) 
B. Actual states which approach the ideal (cc. ix—xii) 
1. The Spartan constitution (c. ix) . 
2. The Cretan type of constitution (c. x) 
3. The Carthaginian constitution (c. xi) 
1. Postscript on other legislators (c. xii) 
BOOK III. THE THEORY OF CITIZENSHIP AND CONSTITU- 
TIONS . . . 
A. Citizenship (cc. i-v) . . 
B. Constitutions and their classification (cc. vi-viii) 
C. The principles of oligarchy and democracy, and the nature of dis- 
tributive justice (cc. ix—xiii) . s 
D. Kingship and its forms (cc. xiv-xviii) . 
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BOOK IV. ACTUAL CONSTITUTIONS AND THEIR VARIETIES 154 
A. Introductory (cc. i-ii) ’ . . . »  I54 
B. The varieties of the main types of constitution, especially de- 
mocracy, oligarchy, and ‘polity’ (cc. iii-x) . . 
C. The type of constitution which is most generally practicable (c. xi) 
D. What sort of constitution is desirable for what sort of civic body? 
(cc. xii~xiii) ' . ; 
E. The methods of establishing constitutions, in relation to the three 
powers—deliberative. executive, and judicial (cc. xiv—=xvi) 
BOOK V. CAUSES OF REVOLUTION AND CONSTITUTIONAL 
CHANGE v . 
A. The general causes of revolution and change in all types of constitu- 
tion (cc. 1—iv) o 
B. The particular causes of revolution and change in different tvpes of 
constitution (cc. v—xii) : . 3 
1. Democracies (c. v) 3 . 
2. Oligarchies (c. vi) . 
3. Aristocracies (c. vii) . ’ . * . 
4. The methods of ensuring constitutional stability in the three 
previous types of constitution (cc. viii-ix) . 
5. Monarchies—including both kingships and tyrannies (cc. x— 
xii) + 
BOOK VI. METHODS OF CONSTRUCTING DEMOCRACIES 
AND OLIGARCHIES WITH A VIEW TO STABILITY 
A. The construction of democracies (cc. i—v) . 
B. The construction of oligarchies (cc. vi~viii) . 
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