Plato's Laws (c. 350 BCE) is his final and longest work, describing a practical constitution for a second-best city governed by law rather than a philosopher-king.
Plato abandons the philosopher-king ideal and designs a practical constitution for Magnesia, a colonial city governed by law; he introduces the concept of mixed constitution and emphasizes education, religious regulation, and legal stability as the foundations of a good polity.
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