Exactly. Just to save you some time: turns out that the spectrum of dictate-to-d

Exactly. Just to save you some time: turns out that the spectrum of dictate-to-democracy of the court, like the government, is dependent upon the geography and means of production, the availability of weaponry to the citizenry; the relationship between the upper and other classes (our own, us vs them); the order of development of the primary institutions: (religion/pedagogy, production/trade, and military/state); and the resulting market of trifunctionalism (depending upon law), or monopoly (depending upon religion or state).

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