Stocker T5.6 The chapter I chose to analyze is from chapter nine, the section in which Machiavelli discusses the best ways to have and maintain a civil principality. Machiavelli does so by using the example of Nabis, prince of Sparta. Nabis who kept his country and his city safe and sustained a siege. Machiavelli says that because the citizens were not hostile toward Nabis, when the imminent danger neared him, Nabis only had to “secure himself against a few subjects.” Machiavelli continues on to say the princes who keep up sprit and order within himself and the spirit of the people then that prince will never have to been worried about his people deceiving him. This is because the prince has laid good foundations for himself. This passage
