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Machiavelli's The Prince

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Machiavelli wrote a book called The Prince, which portray his views on how the Italian government should be. His ideal government was focused on power and success. What I think is that he is right to a certain extent. With a government there needs to be balance of power, success, and care of the people. Power is good because the nation is able to protect it's inhabitants. If a president, or ruler, have too much power it can go to there heads and that can cause their downfall. The power should be from the people, if the people like them they stay in power which gives them the ability to strengthen the military, law enforcement, and other important factors to keeping their country stable. Power is great to have if the person who acquires it

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