Key Arguments

• He presents a universal taxonomy that applies to all past and present regimes.
• This binary division serves as the foundational frame for the analysis that follows in the treatise.

Source Quotes

All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms. Princedoms are either hereditary, in which the sovereignty is derived through an ancient line of ancestors, or they are new.

Key Concepts

• All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms.

Context

Opening classification in Chapter 1 establishing the overarching categories of regimes for the treatise's analysis.