Who’s your daddy?
Hereditary bodies, on the contrary, always existing, always on the watch for their own aggrandizement [to make themselves greater or to appear so], profit of every opportunity of advancing the...
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..whether the power of the people, or that of the aristoi [aristocracy] should prevail.. … we broke into two parties, each wishing to give a different direction to the government; the one to strengthen...
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I obtained leave to bring in a bill declaring tenants in tail to hold their lands in fee simple … To annul this privilege, and instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger, than...
View ArticleHow to eliminate tyrants and empower citizens?
I considered 4 of these bills, passed or reported, as forming a system by which every fibre would be eradicated of antient or future aristocracy; and a foundation laid for a government truly...
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