The Ideal Political System

Societies began to establish thousands of years ago, and this was due to the fact that we as humans are inclined to live in societies. “State comes into existence because no individual is self-sufficient” (Cohen). Humans are in need to live in societies but the question, that all of humanity has had since the beginning of the establishment of society is what type of government should be applied. Philosophers from all time have argued for or against various theories, and many have come up with their own theories. An answer may be found by looking at which theories are more plausible and with less problems. A good theory must be measured by a scale, and the scale that has been chosen is based off of three important characteristics. The characteristics that promote the common good of the people and state, stability and justice. An ideal political system has to have these three essential characteristics,

Democracy for instance doesn’t promote the common good, unstable and doesn’t promote justice, and this makes this system unidealistic. Monarchy on the other hand may stabilize the country extremely well, but in the hands of bad monarchs does not promote justice or the common good of the people and the state. Communism emphasizes on promoting the common good but lacks immensely on promoting justice and in doing so does not stabilize the country. A republic on the other hand promotes the common good with the help of the separation of powers, justice and stabilizes the county. This means that a republic is the most ideal political system, but should it be secular or non-secular? This depends on the state and its people, as mentioned above. The state must determine for itself whether it should or should not be secular and the majority of the people must be in agreement with