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Of Conspiracies

Pedro L. Gonzalez
Nov 10, 2020
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It is a curious thing that the longest section of Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy treats conspiracies. If one had to guess the reason conspiracies receive the longest treatment in a treatise about republican government, it is that they are all too common in them; yet they are all too commonly misunderstood, and ruinous for the rulers and the ruled.

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