In the "Two treatises of government " Locke show a principle still valid in the contemporary society: people delegates their sovereignty as long as the government guarantees freedom and fundamental rights. ... Montesquieu was one of the main authors to see the people as incapable to act for themselves, as he pointed out in "The spirit of the laws ". John Stuart Mill is another author who has exposed his theory about govern, democracy and political representation. ... To some extent the French author modernizes the ideal of ancient Greece's democracy. In his book emerges the need of bringi...

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He likes at times to shock his contemporaries..." ... The first, most obvious purpose of The Prince is stated by the author himself, addressing Lorenzo de' Medici: If you will read [this book] over and study it carefully, you will recognize in it my most earnest desire that you may achieve that summit of grandeur to which your happy destiny and your other capacities predestine you. ... It could easily be said that with this book the author may have trying to ingratiate himself to all the local nobility; on the other hand, knowing what follows might also suggest that Machiavelli was r...

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