CHAPTER X. CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH THE STRENGTH OF ALL PRINCIPALITIES OUGHT TO BE MEASURED
1) Read the above chapters and analyze the reasons why Machiavelli exhorts the prince to take power and conquer Italy?
2) Read the previous chapters, CHAPTER XXIV. WHY THE PRINCES OF ITALY HAVE LOST THEIR STATES, which talk about how the princes lost their states and how the prince should maintain his power once he obtained it. How does Machiavelli lay out the principles of the foundation of the social contract and the modern state?