Aquinas kingship
According to Aquinas, a king is a person who rules in a community, for a general good. Kingship is the ideal kind of government since it accomplishes the end of the state, which is the excellency and welfare of the community joined in fellowship. This end can be achieved through kingship since its characteristic is a single rule, which enables unified peace to prevail. There cannot be unison when there is more than one rule, because only one of the rulers will get approached. Aquinas contemplates on two factual objections directed to kingship. The most significant opposition is that kingship offers the likelihood of tyranny, which Aquinas points out to be the worst kind of government. The second objection was, people ruled by a king are mostly reluctant to make efforts for the general good. They suppose that anything they exercise for general well-being will not be of help to them but to others.
According to Aquinas, Tyranny is the worst and unfair type of government since it leads to minimal virtuous leaders. A tyrant king is a person who rules as per their lust without any reasoning. They fear others’ virtue and doubts good people other than evil ones. Which results in emotional and spiritual oppression on those he rules. Tyranny likelihood is the most significant kingship objection because if corrupted, a kingship will end up being a tyranny. Aquinas holds that sovereignty is the most suitable type of government, claiming it is a rule by the majority that allows the highest likelihood of tyranny. Even in few instances that tyranny forms from kingship, tyranny will have minimal extremes than any other that emerges from other types of government. Aquinas proposes that people should have the authority to restrain, select, and depose a king if his governance becomes exceedingly tyrannical. Aquinas suggests limiting the king’s power by splitting a section of it between the less united political class. A unified kingship gives the best and most secure kind of government.