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Moreover, the idea of peace, although threatened by military oligarchies and by industrial corners, was firmly based on the sentiments of the great majority.
The opposite term to it was oligarchy, in which a small council of men controlled the affairs of the state.
On the contrary, the land passed from the grip of a cruel oligarchy into that of a far more cruel anarchy.
Were as many brokers or merchants to make and administer our laws, without regard to other industrial interests, we should have an oligarchy of trade.
Human progress will never be advanced by oligarchies, no matter how gentle and well-disposed.
Almost without desiring it, Sulla had become the most famous general of his time and the shield of the oligarchy.
He had to choose whether he would ally himself with the oligarchy against the coalition, or enter that coalition: he chose the latter, which was doubtless the safer course.
This democratic rising against a masculine oligarchy ceases when the cause is removed, and the cause is simple.
There was no room in their theoretical social evolution for an oligarchy, therefore the Oligarchy could not be.
Supposing it is not the majority, but, as in the case of an oligarchy, the minority, who meet and enact the rules of conduct, what are these?
It is possible, considering the inertia of the masses, that the whole world might in time come to be dominated by a group of industrial oligarchies, or by one great oligarchy, but it is not probable.
That sporadic oligarchies may flourish for definite periods of time is highly possible; that they may continue to do so is as highly improbable.
In some times and in certain localities the oligarchy has maintained a representative front.
Third choice went to the preferred, professional experts who spoke for and represented the oligarchy.
My family held the highest rank in the privileged classes of our oligarchy; for our pride would not admit of a king, and our selfishness (so I must call it) would allow of no rights.
In his time there grew up an official oligarchy, chiefly composed of members of the legislative council, then embodying within itself executive, legislative and judicial powers.
His career was decided when he threw in his lot with the democratic section against the republican oligarchy.
In effect her government was a close oligarchy; possessed of complete control over elections which in theory were originally popular.
The monarch, in the eyes of the people, is not merely on a par with an aristocratic oligarchy which rules over the inferior masses, or a few nobles who equally divide the sovereignty among themselves.
It made no difference which side was successful; it made no difference whether the republic fell under the rule of an oligarchy or the rule of a mob.
The Provisional Government has not assumed a republican or other constitutional form, but has remained a mere executive council or oligarchy, set up without the assent of the people.
An oligarchy of a hundred thousand rich men presents all the dangers of a democracy with none of its advantages.
As he wrote to the Directory, if they had only remained quiet for a fortnight, the oligarchy would have collapsed from sheer weakness.
It was clear that a conflict to the death must soon commence between the oligarchy and this new faction.
The influence of the Stadtholders was an object of extreme jealousy to the municipal oligarchy.
Where the power of making laws is in a single hand we have a monarchy; where it is exercised by a few or all we have alternatively oligarchy and democracy.
Nor is oligarchy much better off since it emphasizes the interest of a group against the superior interest of the community as a whole.
He never attempted to do away, root and branch, with the corrupt municipal oligarchies, but only to make them more tolerable by the infusion of a certain amount of new blood.
He limited the freedom of the citizens, and turned the old democratic constitution into an oligarchy.
If Cicero's Republic was a narrow oligarchy, it was also the only form of constitutional and civilian government which he knew or could imagine.
And the new government which thus arises will be of a form intermediate between oligarchy and aristocracy?
Such, then, is the form and such are the evils of oligarchy; and there may be many other evils.
Then oligarchy, or the form of government in which the rulers are elected for their wealth, may now be dismissed.
Yes, he said; at any rate the individual out of whom he came is like the State out of which oligarchy came.
And then, although they may have no desire of change, the others charge them with plotting against the people and being friends of oligarchy?
Like him, the philosophers Hume and Paley believed in oligarchy, and accepted force or corruption as its two alternative props.
Democracies, oligarchies, aristocracies spring into being by laws of natural selection within the limits of a single province.
These administrative bodies are the great instruments of the present leaders in their progress through democracy to oligarchy.
They are the real basis of our Southern oligarchy, as you call it,' continued the Colonel, still laughing.
This extraordinary man, who certainly was the founder of the greatness of his house, had long since understood that in such an oligarchy as that of Florence, the wealthiest must win.
At this point the rigid conceptions of the triumphant oligarchy stood in the way of a wide national policy.
In short, we found that the only logical negation of oligarchy was in the affirmation of original sin.
To sustain their supremacy in the political field, governments and politicians allied themselves to the new industrial oligarchy.
The senators are not elected by the people, but are named by the prince, and form an oligarchy composed of the wealthiest and most influential persons.
When the rich preserve their customs and maintain the law, this is called aristocracy, or if they neglect the law, oligarchy.
What does the rest of the world care if we are a republic or a monarchy, an oligarchy or hopeless anarchy?
Whilst the objection itself is levelled against a pretended oligarchy, the principle of it strikes at the very root of republican government.
He says that every oligarchy carries in it the seeds of its own destruction; that if we can't evolve with the rest of the world, we're doomed in any case.
In time a class of nobles has been developed, who have broken into the oligarchy and made an aristocracy.
"Any kind of kingdom can be built in the heart of a child, an oligarchy, a democracy or a republic," he answered quickly.
There was a short period of power struggle until they realized the foolishness of civil war and formed an oligarchy, heading a loose tribal organization.
It obeyed a financial oligarchy which formed opinion by means of the newspapers, and held in its hands the representatives, the ministers, and the president.
When the governing few are not the best fitted for the work, a so-called aristocracy is of course not an aristocracy (government by the best) at all, but merely an oligarchy.
If monarchy is the government of one, oligarchy that of a few, and democracy that of many, surely there will some day arise the rule of all.
The government was a complete oligarchy; and a few old, rich, and powerful families divided among themselves the influence and power of the state.
The Whigs have ever been opposed to the national institutions because they are adverse to the establishment of an oligarchy.
For the majority in these semi-democratic times is often as not a cloak for the ruling oligarchy.
It was more logical, and in many ways more equal and even equitable than the English oligarchy, but it really became a tyranny in case of rebellion or even resistance.
The truth is that the old parliamentary oligarchy abandoned their first line of trenches because they had by that time constructed a second line of defense.
The government set over her was an oligarchy of thirty persons, known in history as the thirty tyrants.
Such is the legendary account of the change of government at Athens, from royalty to an oligarchy.
For many years after his time the government continued to be an oligarchy, but was exercised with more moderation and justice than formerly.
Here was the oligarchy which, behind the appearances of democratic government, effectively managed, directed, and controlled the town.
Most of them were young men, and nearly all of them were closely identified, either by interest or by close relationship, with prominent members of the oligarchy.
In this way the strength of the oligarchy was consolidated and enlarged, and its members rendered more and more independent of public opinion.
To this day there exists an oligarchy of academic persons whose taste is almost exactly on a par with the taste most in evidence two hundred years ago.
The whole organization was essentially a democracy, as the chiefs, although an oligarchy in appearance, were controlled by the voices and results of the councils.
He had been faithful to the Slave oligarchy in many things, but his failure in one was counted a breach of the whole law.
In all colonies you will usually find an oligarchy, cemented by mutual interest and family connection, and so bound up together as to become formidable if opposed to the Government.
With an equality of representation in the Senate of the United States, and a firm hold of all the branches of the Government, the prospect of the oligarchy for success was brilliant.
The people, like John Brown's soul, are 'marching on' to dissolve the slave oligarchy and establish democracy.
Like every other aristocracy that has lived, it drew the sword on the people, either to subdue the whole country, or carry off a portion of it, to be governed in the interests of an oligarchy.
The fact is, that "State Rights" were not to Jefferson a first principle, but a weapon which he used for the single purpose of resisting oligarchy.
They were not deep enough in history to understand that they also stood, like the old English Whigs, for oligarchy against the instinct and tradition of the people.
Therein they differed from the English, who, being habitually governed by an oligarchy, did not feel it extraordinary that the same oligarchy should tax them.
No sooner did the people of Upper Canada begin to show an appreciation of his talents, than the Upper Canadian oligarchy saw in him a formidable rival to be got rid of by any means.
Venice, the neighbor and constant foe of Milan, had become a close oligarchy by a process of gradual constitutional development, which threw her government into the hands of a few nobles.
The only alternative was to submit to a powerful oligarchy who were determined to make freedom forever subordinate to slavery.
And it is most significant of all that this sort of danger is even greater in what is called the new democracy of America than in what is called the old oligarchy of England.
In the early eighteenth century the State meant the Whig oligarchy, and its members only too easily came to regard the welfare of the Empire as identical with their own prosperity.
Before 1789, the nation was subject to an oligarchy of nobles and notables; after 1789, it became subject to an oligarchy of Jacobins big or little.
Modern reform has long since swept away the municipal oligarchy which owed its origin to the Stuart king.
He was the recognized chief of the popular party, which aimed at concentrating Republican government in the hands of a single person, as the only means of bridling the oligarchy.
If no one could vote for a member of parliament who was not fit to be a candidate, the government would be a narrow oligarchy indeed.
Perhaps there are other examples of old types and patterns, lost in the old oligarchy and saved in the new democracies.
This is a policy not only expedient for tyrants or in practice confined to them, but equally necessary in oligarchies and democracies.
At a later stage the old man shared in the civil government with monarchy, aristocracy or oligarchy, and retained an almost complete control of judicial affairs.
The corruption then of monarchy is called tyranny; that of aristocracy, oligarchy and that of democracy, anarchy.
The empire of these oligarchies was not so violent as short, nor did they fall upon the people, but in their own immediate ruin.
Your predecessors owed their elevation to the slave oligarchy, and in serving slavery they did but obey their masters.
Many of the prominent families of the 17th century were related to each other, and they formed a compact little oligarchy that at times controlled the affairs of the colony at will.
His brother compelled him into propriety, and carried him along within the lines of the oligarchy.
In fact, their government was, from the Revolution of 1688 on, a thorough oligarchy, divided among a few great houses.
The track management of this particular university was an oligarchy; was governed by a few absolute individuals.
Political oligarchies have usually defended their rule by the assumption that the masses are incapable, and the few are superior.
A vast, benevolent, generous democracy, where one may have what one likes, or a cold oligarchy where he is compelled to take what is good for him?
In the cycle of state regimes that are founded in the Aristotelian division, democracy is followed by tyranny, the latter by the oligarchy, which is followed by democracy, and so forth.
And in many lesser cities this has brought at least temporary relief from the oppression of the local oligarchy.
He not only leads his district but represents it on the executive committee; and this brotherhood of leaders forms the potent oligarchy of Tammany.
He preached authority and subordination, and dwelt more on duties than on rights, on religion than on policy; and his system perished in the revolution by which oligarchies were swept away.