The popular protagonism and the republican institutions in machiavelli

People's centrality in politics

Authors

  • Ricardo Manoel de Oliveira Morais Faculdade Milton Campos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14393/RFADIR-52.1.2024.72998.172-198

Keywords:

People, Republican regime, Freedom, Popular virtue, Machiavelli

Abstract

This article aims to analyze Machiavelli’s contributions about the political centrality that the popular element must have in a republican regime. For that, a bibliography review of Machiavelli’s work and scholars will be made. According to him, in every political community there are two fundamental and antagonistic desires, that of the great, who wants to oppress, and that of the people, who do not want to be oppressed, whose confrontations determines institutionally the political order of a city in principality, republic or license. What we want to maintain is that Machiavelli is a thinker who defended throughout his work the republican order as the best of regimes, since there is freedom and popular participation in it, and that the people not only own a great virtue but must play a central role in political affairs.

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Published

2026-01-14

Issue

Vol. 52 No. 1 (2024): Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

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The popular protagonism and the republican institutions in machiavelli: People’s centrality in politics. (2026). Journal of the Faculty of Law of the Federal University of Uberlândia, 52(1), 172-198. https://doi.org/10.14393/RFADIR-52.1.2024.72998.172-198