Thomas More's Utopian Government

Thomas More describes an ideal society and government where people maintain high moral standard and live with ultimate freedom and happiness. In the Utopia, the Utopian government strive to fulfill and optimize the benefits and happiness of Utopian citizens. Reasonably, people would describe a safe and happy government as domestically stable and diplomatically powerful so that it obtains admiration and fear from both its citizens and surrounding countries, thus enabling its citizens to live with freedom and pursue the ultimate happiness. However, although the images of Utopian government are attractive and appealing, Machiavelli would reprimand the existence of this ideal government to be absurd and unrealistic because of its unreasonable equality
The overruling of government allows citizens to forget about their original traces and be fully united under the current government. The sense of belonging help government stabilize the states and easily take people into its possession. Differently, Utopian adopt equality and democracy in its foundation of government. Thirty households elect an administrators known as syphogrant, and the two hundreds syphogrant elect their chief executive (Utopia, P. 96). The election process is democratic and government officials are derived based on the endorsement of their citizens. However, it is equality and democracy that make the government fragile because government officials are elected by the people so they possess the honor to serve citizens wholeheartedly, but if some rules are necessary to be made against the will of their citizens, they would feel abashed and reluctant to execute. Consequently, government is so ascribed to the decision of their citizens, thus losing the domestic authority. Machiavelli does not permit the intimacy between government and people as he states that it is much safer
Because Utopian detest war, so they never intentionally initiate war to other countries, and they only conduct war when it is necessary. Even when the war become necessary, Utopian government would not risk their citizens but instead hire mercenaries and auxiliaries to fight the war for them (Utopia, Of Warfare). The benevolence of Utopian government protects their citizens from risk, but their citizens do not receive qualified fighting training, and the heavy reliance on mercenaries could gradually convert Utopian to take them for granted. As Machiavelli explains in the Prince, mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless and dangerous troops because they are not brave enough and value the wealth they gain from war so they are hired at the risk of betraying their employers. Even Utopian realize that mercenaries are able to abandon them when higher value contracts are offered, but they still hire mercenaries because they think the occupation of infinite amount of treasure which they do not appreciate allows them to provide the most appealing offer which cannot be rejected (Utopia, P. 140). However, since mercenaries only cherish money as the criterion for whether they continue to fight, they are not stable and loyal troops. Utopian frequently let others to firstly decide the triumph and fate of their countries and when they eventually sense the trepidation of war, they realize they need to