For Aristotle, a constitution should be named as a democratic one when the sovereign body of the polis is consisted of the free men who are not wealthy, and these men are the majority. We see that Aristotle links democracy with the rule of the poor. He emphasizes that the rule of the poor is the distinctive element of democracy, and not the rule of the many. It is central to Aristotle that there is not only one but a number of different kinds of democracy, and it is important for him to reveal their differences and categorize them. These variances are also evident into all the existent constitutional frameworks. A new analysis for the study of classical ancient, Aristotelian philosophy

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