Political Theory

Question
Given the political realities of modern Western democracies, do you think the public good is best served by a Machiavellian or a Ciceronian model of statesmanship? Explain your answer with close reference to both texts.

Citations from the text must be made inline, meaning at the end of the quotation in parentheses, with the name of the author and the page number. E.g. (Machiavelli, p. 35). You do not need to cite any outside material.