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Offering a systematic picture of Florentine institutions at the era of the first domination of the Medicis, this short treatise presents the Tuscan city as a mixed constitutional democracy. The Florentine Republic was effectually marked by a double principle of social exclusion, with manual laborers and nobles pushed out of the circle of citizenship. At the same time, the presence of a mercenary army, rather than a people's militia, meaning that the legislative councils could not determine their agenda and could not freely discuss the bills handed down by the Signoria (but only accept or reject them), is more a feature of aristocracy. Conversely, the materialization of the ideal of the vivere libero in the heart of political institutions and the rapid rotation of public offices assigned by lot are at the core of democracy. Adapted from the source document.

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