It is excellent if a regime arranges its laws and offices in such a way that it is impossible to profit from the offices. In a democracy, the rich should be treated well their property should not be redistributed. In oligarchies, it is important to treat the poor very well, such that there is an opportunity for the poor to become well-off. It is advantageous to assign equality or precedence to those who participate least in the regime the well-off in democracies, and the poor in oligarchies. Chapter 9 Rulers need an affection for the regime, a capacity for ruling, and virtue and justice relative to the regime.
Advantageous laws are laws that help to preserve the regime.
The middling element should also not be neglected in this discussion, because they can act as a stabilizing force. The greatest thing that helps to make regimes lasting is education relative to the regime. This means not that democratic people should be educated democratically, but rather that they should be educated oligarchically, and vice versa, to counteract the natural tendency of the regime toward its extreme form. The problem with democracies is that they define freedom badly. In monarchy, the causes of revolution are as follows.