Socialism is a range of economic and social systems.
Federalism, separation of power , checks and balances and small and large states <span />
According to Machiavelli's the Prince, princes should act in a practical manner. Machiavelli produced a practical guide to the arts of statecraft, which served the practical needs of the powerful families that emerged in the Italian city-states during the Renaissance. Statecraft involved carefully crafted approaches to the realistic conditions faced by rulers. It was driven less by emotion or morality but reason.
