“Authority cannot afford to be an accomplice to disobedience” writes Sophocles in Antigone. This is also a central concern for Aristotle who establishes the importance of "Authority" in the first lines of his treatise Politics: "For we see that every city-state is a kind of community and that every community is constituted with a view to some good ... it is clear that every community aims at some good, and the community that has more authority than all and includes all the others aims higher, that is, at the good with more authority. This is what is called a city-state or community politics.” [I.1.1252a1–7](emphasis added)It also states that the city-state arises for the sake of life but exists for the sake of the good life. The idea that the good life or happiness is the end right of the city-state occurs throughout the Politics (Books III and VII). The existence of the city-state (polis) requires an efficient ruler. A community of any kind can possess order only if it has a dominant element or a authority. This dominant principle is defined by the Constitution, which establishes the criteria for political offices, in particular for the sovereign office. Aristotle defines the constitution as “a certain ordering of the inhabitants of the city-state” (III.1.1274b32-41). It is not a written document, but an immanent organizing principle, analogous to the soul of an organism. The constitution, therefore, is also "the lifestyle" of citizens (IV.11.1295a40-b1, VII.8.1328b1-2). Here citizens are that minority of the resident population who possess full political rights (III.1.1275b17–20). Once the constitution is in force, the politician must take appropriate measures to maintain it, to introduce reforms when he deems them necessary,...... half of the document ......ilosophy Ed.Edward N. Zalta . Spring 2013. Web. 06 November 2013Loewenberg, J. "The comic spirit." The North American Review April 225842 (1928): 485-91. Print.Miller, Fred. "Aristotle's Political Theory". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward N. Zalta. Fall 2012. Web 06 November 2013. Robinson, Andrew. "Bakhtin in theory: Carnival against capital, Carnival against power." Ceasefire Magazine RSS. 9 September 2011. Web. 07 November 2013Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night, or whatever. Ed. Keir Elam. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2008. Print.Sophocles. "King Oedipus." The Theban games. Trans. E. F. Watling. Baltimore: Penguin, 1947. Print.Welsford, Enid. The Fool; Its social and literary history. Gloucester, MA: P. Smith, 1966. Print.Wiles, David. Clown actor and Shakespeare text in the Elizabethan theatre. Cambridge [etc.: Cambridge UP, 1987. Print.