Politics

*Politics* begins with the household and slavery, surveys existing constitutions (Plato's *Republic* included), and turns to the classification, causes of revolution, and preservation of regimes. The closing books sketch the best constitution and the education suited to it. Together with the *Nicomachean Ethics*, the *Politics* is the foundational text of Western political theory — every later discussion of citizenship, mixed government, or the common good responds to Aristotle's framework here. William Ellis's 1776 translation preserves the directness of Aristotle's argument.