[105] guarding the interests of the whole confederacy but leaving each member of it free to direct its own affairs; supporting the people but making war on despotic powers,[84] considering it an outrage that the many should be subject to the few, that those who were poorer in fortune but not inferior in other respects should be banished from the offices, that, furthermore, in a fatherland which belongs to all in common[85] some should hold the place of masters, others of aliens,[86] and that men who are citizens by birth[87] should be robbed by law of their share in the government.