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 * 2001: Rupert Woodfin [text], Judy Groves [illustrations], and Richard Appignanesi [ed.], Introducing Aristotle, pages 147{1} and 151{2} (Icon Books UK, Totem Books USA; ISBN 1840462337
 * {1} Aristotle concludes that the best practical form of government is a constitutional republic in which power is shared between the people and some kind of élite. The precise arguments do not matter and will vary from one polis to another.
 * {2} Skilled professionals of all kinds were not properly “citizens” but an underclass of banausoi, artisans or trades-people. The historian Plutarch (c. AD 46–120) spoke for an élite when he said: “We admire the art but despise the artist.”