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In Niccolo Machiavelli’s the Prince, he is conveying to the reader and also to the Medici family, his views on how Princes should run their states. As one gets further into the reading they will find the Machiaveli’s ideal Prince is a harsh and fierce individual that must be able to execute actions that might be considered intolerable, but however, must be done in order to ensure an effective rule. He begins by discussing Hereditary states. Hereditary states are states that are ruled for many years by an already established family. During his discussion of these types of states, he concludes that it is easier for a prince to prosper in this setting as opposed to a principality. He continues that when a prince comes to be in a hereditary state he only had to maintain previous habits and simply make them apply to present times, which is easy since his subjects are already loyal to the existing family. He then begins to explain the down side princes face while trying to maintain rule over principalities and so forth. Most of his instructions are self explanatory and he writes them as if they are common knowledge. His instructions consist of, usings ones own troops, siding with the general people more than the nobl