Aristotle first focused on the issues of rule by law and rule by man in his early work

Rhetoric

in which he initially transitioned from rule by man to rule by law， and then from rule by law to rule by man， forming a dialectical interaction between the two methods of governance. His later work

Politica

continued this approach， examining various forms of government and ultimately proposing an intermediate constitution that balances rule by law and rule by man. In fact，

Rhetoric

had already implied a similar moderate democracy. With the help of philosophical rheto

rics， Aristotle planned an ideal elitist-democratic constitution corresponding to

Rhetoric.