According to Aristotle, why is having a large middle class important?

a. A large middle class is better able to defend the state from foreign invaders.

b. A large middle class always likes representative government

c. A large middle class is best able to decide who the government’s leaders should be.

d. Because most people are average and a large middle class acknowledges this fact.

e. Because it helps prevent there from being too many poor or from having the wealth of the state rest with a monied elite.