>>3145173Absolute monarchy would be the ideal form of government under the rule of a philospher-king, as described by Plato in The Republic.
Reality, however, is radically different from the ideal, and there must be checks and balances placed so that no person may ever absorb too much power. The truest kind of kind of democracy would, ideally speaking, be democratic self-rule by small, self-sustaining communities of no more than 50,000 people each.
