{"id":51,"date":"2008-03-17T23:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foucachon.com\/home\/2008\/03\/17\/aquinas-on-governement\/"},"modified":"2008-03-17T23:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T23:20:00","slug":"aquinas-on-governement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2008\/03\/aquinas-on-governement\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquinas on Governement"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>The best government of a society (<em>multitudo<\/em>) is one that is ruled by one person. This is clear from the end of government which is peace. Peaceful unity among his subjects is the end of a ruler, and one ruler, rather than many rulers, is a more proximate cause of unity. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>St. Thomas Aquinas, <em>The Summa Against the Gentiles, <\/em>Bk. IV, ch. 76. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best government of a society (multitudo) is one that is ruled by one person. This is clear from the end of government which is peace. Peaceful unity among his subjects is the end of a ruler, and one ruler, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2008\/03\/aquinas-on-governement\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}