The Prince
By: Andrew • Essay • 376 Words • December 8, 2009 • 650 Views
Essay title: The Prince
In the book “The Prince” the Arthur describes the differences of states, and it also notes that it’s easy to have government that’s hereditary in state. Some of the two reasons for a principality is, those of a state familiar with the prince and his family and are used to his or their rules. The prince only has to keep past foundation together, while adapting these institutions to current events. Another one of these rules is if the prince commits something wrong against his own people he would be removed from the ruling family.
Machiavelli talks to you in the book about how maintaining a new principality is more harder than maintaining a hereditary state. And how people would willingly trade there ruler that they have now for another, wishing the new ruler will be better than the one they had. When a prince takes over another prince’s spot, he finds himself in a difficult situation with the people who put him in charge of the old ruler. If he can’t maintain the support of the people because he would not be able to fulfill all of their expectations then the people just traded there old ruler for one that doesn’t know what he is doing.
It is less stressful to maintain control of a new principality. Where the people share the same language