Common and academic language use the words monarchy and principality as equivalents. In both cases, fundamentally, the government of only one is appointed. However, we will try to show that the distinction between the concepts of monarchy according to traditional use and that of principality in the sense that Machiavelli gives to the new principality in "The Prince", is important for an adequate understanding of the thought of the Florentine writer, who This work begins by modifying the classic tripartition of the forms of government, by presenting a dual classification...
Vega Méndez, F. (2016). The principality and the exception (study on the conception of the new principality in Machiavelli’s The Prince). Revista De Derecho Público, (63), Págs. 22–38. https://doi.org/10.5354/rdpu.v0i63.43152
