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43-45. 11 Sec Lewkenor's notes appended to his translation of Contarini, p. 163, and Maxims, p. 28. 32 TH E CLASSICAL REPUBLICANS tion prevailed, the principle commonly observed being that an official was ineligible for réélection until a period equal to the term o f his office had passed. 11*3The Ducal Councillors were changed every eight months, the Sages every six months, the three Capi di died, who headed the Ten, every month. T he result o f these provisions was that although the entire administration did not change at any one time, one part or another o f it was changing almost all the time.
III, 283, 247. , especially pp. 129, 130, 139-41 etseq. Cf. II, 262; I, 6. n On Savonarola’s constitution see Guicciardini's Storia Fiorentina, cap. xvii. This work may be found in the Opere inedite, vol. I, in which it first appeared. See also Guicciardini's POLITIQUES LEARNED O U T OF DECLAIMERS 19 T he plans for Florence proposed by Savonarola and Machiavelli both gave great power to the people. 76 His views are significant as illustrating the appeal o f the theory o f mixed government to those whose conception o f govern ment was essentially aristocratic.
He had the good sense to sec that Charles’s acts had been absolutist in character and de manded an absolutist theory to defend them. It is symptomatic o f the truth of this state ment that the second Stuart attempt at absolutism, that in the 1680’s, saw a great re vival of his doctrines and was carried on frankly under his banner. I/>ckc, Tyrrell, and Algernon Sydney wrote long and detailed answers to him. W e cannot suppose that men of their abilities devoted their energies to replying to ideas which were considered inconsequential or not widely held.