Where a republic demands equality, and equality tends to ensure mobility, oligarchy is about hierarchy and stasis. (Allen C. Guelzo)

Where a republic demands equality, and equality tends to ensure mobility, oligarchy is about hierarchy and stasis.

Allen C. Guelzo

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