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for all men are guided by considerations of
expediency, and that which preserves the State is expedient. Further, the
declaration of the authority is authoritative,1 and the different
kinds of authority are distinguished according to forms of government; in fact,
there are as many authorities as there are forms of government.
1 The pronouncements of the supreme authority are themselves authoritative as laying down laws and regulations for the citizens.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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