[131] For they established government by the people, not the kind which operates at haphazard, mistaking licence for liberty and freedom to do what one likes for happiness,[127] but the kind which frowns upon such excesses and makes use of the rule of the best. Now the majority count the rule of the best,[128] which is the most advantageous of governments (just as they do government based upon a property qualification[129]), among the distinct kinds of polity, being mistaken, not because of ignorance, but because they have never taken any interest in the things which should claim their attention.