The varieties depend on three terms, and the combinations
of these give all possible modes: first, who appoints? secondly,
from whom? and thirdly, how? Each of these three admits of three
varieties: (A) All the citizens, or (B) only some, appoint. Either (1)
the magistrates are chosen out of all or (2) out of some who are
distinguished either by a property qualification, or by birth, or
merit, or for some special reason, as at Megara only those were
eligible who had returned from exile and fought together against the
democracy. They may be appointed either (a) by vote or (b) by lot.
Again, these several varieties may be coupled, I mean that (C) some
officers may be elected by some, others by all, and (3) some again out
of some, and others out of all, and (c) some by vote and others by
lot. Each variety of these terms admits of four modes.
For either (A 1 a) all may appoint from all by vote, or (A 1 b)
all from all by lot, or (A 2 a) all from some by vote, or (A 2 b)
all from some by lot (and from all, either by sections, as, for
example, by tribes, and wards, and phratries, until all the citizens
have been gone through; or the citizens may be in all cases eligible
indiscriminately); or again (A 1 c, A 2 c) to some offices in the
one way, to some in the other. Again, if it is only some that appoint,
they may do so either (B 1 a) from all by vote, or (B 1 b) from all by
lot, or (B 2 a) from some by vote, or (B 2 b) from some by lot, or
to some offices in the one way, to others in the other, i.
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