There be other names of government in the histories and books of policy, as “tyranny,” and “oligarchy”: but they are not the names of other forms of government, but of the same forms misliked. For they that are discontented under “monarchy,” call it “tyranny”; and they that are displeased with “aristocracy,” call it “oligarchy”: so also they which find themselves grieved under a “democracy,” call it “anarchy,” which signifies want of government; and yet I think no man believes that want of government is any new kind of government: nor by the same reason ought they to believe that the government is of one kind when they like it, and another when they dislike it, or are oppressed by the governors.

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