AbstractThe aim of this study is to challenge the current scholarly consensus depicting Plato as having renounced the political ideal of hisRepublic, and modified it in favour of a ‘mixed constitution’ in his last work, theLaws. The study shows that Plato's critique of democracy remains as firm in theLawsas it was in theRepublicand theStatesman, refusing to concede any room to any form of popular sovereignty that could threaten the government of knowledge.