Readers from all walks of life have revered Niccolo Machiavelli's masterpiece of political and social thinking, The Prince, since it was published in the sixteenth century. The influence of this piece has shaped politics, as we know it. Almost all of the provisions written by Machiavelli are in so...

The Prince Chapter 1: Machiavelli opens by telling us the different kinds of governments that have been held over men through out time. The two that he goes on to explain our that of monarchies and republics. Chapter 2: In maintaining a hereditary monarchy the royal family has a much ...

Karl Marx, a German author, and John Locke, a British educator, are both very well known philosophers. Both have written essays on the ideal government: Marx created Marxism and Locke defined democracy. Both forms of government have been tried throughout the course of time. Both, however, came fr...

Karl Marx, a German author, and John Locke, a British educator, are both very well known philosophers. Both have written essays on the ideal government: Marx created Marxism and Locke defined democracy. Both forms of government have been tried throughout the course of time. Both, however, came fr...