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…showed last 75 words of 482 total…was developed as a plan for society that attains its good through subordination of national wealth and power to the true general welfare without class friction. This ideal is offered as a criterion for appraising actual societies. Its centralization of authority in a disinterested expert legislative group continues to be criticized as fascistic and totalitarian. The principle of the consent of the governed is essential and explicitly provided for in book four of the Republic.