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...ates of America]]. At the time, it meant his opposition to militarism and aristocracy, and his design for a [[League of Nations]] to keep the peace by reflecting

...ess committed members of [[Parliament]], many of whom were from an Irish [[aristocracy|aristocratic]] or [[gentry]] [[Church of Ireland]] background and other mor

* Fox, Dixon Ryan. ''The Decline of Aristocracy in the Politics of New York, 1801–1840'' (1919)

...n's shack in Calormen, a country far to the south of Narnia. A visiting [[aristocracy|noble]] warrior seeks to buy Shasta, the fisherman's son, and during the co

...ncient and some medieval monarchies held elections among the members of an aristocracy to elect a new king when the reigning king died.

...1909 threatened both the social and economic power of the British landed [[aristocracy]] as well as the high-tariff political agenda of the [[Conservative Party]]

...]], or perhaps forms of something that might be termed modern bureaucratic aristocracy. Modern industrial democracies Lippmann argued, were too complex for ordin

...cius. According to tradition, Sun Tzu was a member of the landless Chinese aristocracy, the shih, descendants of nobility who had lost their dukedoms during the c

...none of his own poetry, and this was in keeping with the tradition of the aristocracy in which he belonged (maintained also by [[Walter Ralegh|Ralegh]]). It was

...icanism, U.S.|republican political ideology]] was superior to monarchy and aristocracy. He also wrote several other influential works, including ''[[The American ...the city. In doing so, he was exposed to the class resentment toward the aristocracy as well as the views of philosophers such as [[John Locke]]. In 1758, his

...cult among those nations than among all others. When several members of an aristocracy agree to combine, they easily succeed in doing so; as each of them brings g

...vic duty to aid the state and resist corruption, especially monarchism and aristocracy.<ref> Banning (1978) pp 79-90</ref>

...1930s, Hitler believed it necessary to form alliances with the Right: the aristocracy, business and finance, the landlords and the Army. Roehm and Goebbels, how

...lly passive when faced with a confrontation, it was decided to appease the Aristocracy|aristocrat by temporarily changing the group's name.<ref>{{cite book | auth

...uling tyrannies of [[Corinth]] and [[Sicyon]], since the Spartans favoured aristocracy over the business class. The Spartans also founded the [[Peloponnesian Leag

...he tenancy laws so easily passed by parliament, deeply offended the landed aristocracy which had long dominated the army. His long-promised reform of the central

...ad, it seemed to him, resulted in the separate evolution of the leisured [[aristocracy]] (the Eloi) and the [[working class]] (the Morlocks). In this scheme, the

...of the Caucasus. His mother came from a high ranking family of the Russian aristocracy engaged in state service. Witte’s childhood in the Caucasus was a happy o

...Aristotle provided depiction of three kinds of regimes --- [[monarchy]], [[aristocracy]], and polity, and the repsective degradation of the three, namely, [[tyran

...to save a fellow “toff.” The near-incestuous nature of the Upper Canadian aristocracy is further demonstrated by the fact that, in 1818, Samuel Peters Jarvis mar