"What about justice then? For the use or acquisition of what would you say it is useful in peacetime?" "Contracts, Socrates." "Do you mean by contracts, partnerships, or something else?" "Partnerships, of course."
What constitutes - "The Republic", and for what purpose?
A republick = A pile of People that understand and strengthen a worthy common cause = thesis. A democracy = A pile of People that shit on a worthy common cause = antithesis.
Stick with Aristotle. Plato and Socrates just aren't as good as The Philosopher.
Stick with de Tocqueville and La Rochefoucauld - the former understood the essence of our form of government, and nobody ever wrote perceptively about the true ways of the human heart than the latter.