IF NOW, IN THE LIGHT OF MONTESQUIEU'S INSIGHTS, WE RECONSIDER THE TRADITION not from its end but from its beginning and ask ourselves what role the experience of rule played, in what realm of life it was chiefly located, we should remember that the traditional forms of government--enumerated as rule by one, or few, or a multitude, which follow consistently from the division between rulers and subjects, as do their perversions--were always accompanied by an altogether different ...