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Camila Vergara is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Eric H. Holder Jr. Initiative for Civil and Political Rights, Columbia Law School. She is the author of Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic. Find her on Twitter @Camila_Vergara.
Much maligned as a mere tactician of power, Machiavelli was in fact a philosopher of the people. His critique of oligarchic domination remains essential today.
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