In the Republic, Socrates has definitely settled in all a few questions only; such as the community of women and children, the community of property, and the constitution of the state.
The population is divided into two classes--one of husbandmen, and the other of warriors; from this latter is taken a third class of counsellors and rulers of the state.

But Socrates has not determined whether the husbandmen and artists are to have a share in the government, and whether they too are to carry arms and share in military service or not.

He certainly thinks that the women ought to share in the education of the guardians, and to fight by their side.

The remainder of the work is filled up with digressions foreign to the main subject, and with discussions about the education of the guardians.

In the Laws there is hardly anything but laws; not much is said about the constitution.
This, which he had intended to make more of the ordinary type, he gradually brings round to the other or ideal form.