Full Idea
Those holding the controlling offices should possess friendship towards the constitution, great capacity for that office, and the virtue and justice required by that constitution.
Gist of Idea
Officers should like the constitution, be capable, and have appropriate virtues and justice
Source
Aristotle (Politics [c.332 BCE], 1309a33)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Politics', ed/tr. Reeve,C.D.C. [Hackett 2017], p.128
A Reaction
We need to remember that all officers in our democracy need to be fully committed to that system of government (which does not always seem to me to be the case).
Related Idea
Idea 22573 The virtue of justice may be relative to a particular constitution [Aristotle]