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 | | Prior to the rise of the Komnenoi in 1081 dignities were awarded broadly, but Alexios began his dynasty's tradition of awarding dignities primarily for reasons of loyalty and kinship, inflating thereby the relative status of the military aristocracy relative to that of the civil bureaucracy. | | | Occasionally a woman might be appointed to a lesser office or dignity, and the same naming convention would apply. | | | Some of the may titles and dignities within the Empire are described below, in descending order of prestige. |
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| | Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.1, Entry 79, ARISTOCRACY.: Library of Economics and Liberty |
| | It is the duty of modern publicists to distinguish natural aristocracy from that born of convention and of law. | | | Macaulay, the great historian, who received the title of lord, is an instance of this intelligent liberality which brings into the ranks of the aristocracy all the social forces capable of adding to its strength and brilliancy. | | | If democracy condemns privileges securing the monopoly of government to a certain class unjustly favored by the laws, it can not, without injury to itself, reject the natural aristocracy born of enlightenment, services performed, and all kinds of superiority recognized and sanctioned by society. |
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| | Table of Contents and Excerpt, Nutini, The Mexican Aristocracy |
| | Self-selectively and customarily, aristocrats did not participate in or were effectively barred from the political process; and from the onset of the Revolution until the late 1950s they did not hold political offices of any significance at the state or federal levels. | | | By ancient seigneurial rights, conquistadors considered themselves entitled to honors and dignities (commoners aspired to hidalguía—gentry status—and hidalgos aspired to titles of nobility) which the Crown was not willing to grant, as it did not want to perpetuate a seigneurial system that the Catholic kings had largely managed to dismantle in Spain. | | | Significantly, such egalitarian developments right after Independence were due to an initial democratic fervor with a tinge of revolutionary zeal experienced by the Creole population, perhaps half of it racially mestizo. |
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| | COLONIAL LIFE IN VIRGINIA |
| | It was during this second term of Berkeley that the heads of various prosperous families of the colony rose to positions in the House of Burgesses and Virginia became ruled by a very small group of affluent and wealthy families known as the "Tidewater Aristocracy". | | | Thus the terms "Tidewater Virginia" and "Tidewater Aristocracy". | | | The early immigrants to Virginia came to a colony totally dominated by a three-tiered class-system. |
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| | Aristocracy |
| | Meanwhile, the American Aristocracy has joined the old aristocracies in being the leaders of any and all generations. | | | It is perhaps to their credit (or to their practicality) that those born of lesser parents can sometimes be reluctantly admitted to the aristocratic club. | | | And speaking of presidents -- and their so-called elections -- the late breaking news (as of August 16, 2004) is that John Kerry will be elected in November 2004. |
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| | Third Party & Independents:: Aristocracy vs. Democracy |
| | At the heart of the issue however, is the Constitution of the United States and the Revolutionary War which won freedom and independence from the King of England and the aristocracy that ruled at the time. | | | The estate tax prevents such an aristocracy from becoming larger than it already is. Money talks in D.C., too often, louder than the individual voter's letters or emails to Congress or the President. | | | The Preamble states the Constitution is written in order to create a more perfect union and justice in the land. |
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| | FULANI ARISTOCRACY |
| | In the North, the legacy of the Sokoto Caliphate and its Islamic traditions bore handsome fruits for the Fulani aristocracy as the great – grandsons and direct descendants of the conqueror of the Hausa, Nupe, and Ilorin – Yoruba state walked back into supreme and expanded power in Northern Nigeria. | | | But this inhuman cruelty and debased justice, many have been sign-posts of an emergent hegemony which, his now grown in sophistication. | | | There are two principal reasons why this is so: first, as now constituted, there is no state or local government area in Northern Nigeria in which the Fulani make up a majority. |
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http://www.nigerdeltacongress.com/farticles/fulani_aristocracy.htm
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| | Destruction Of The Aristocracy |
| | This formed the basis for our own system of government, in which the king-the Federal Executive Authority-is balanced by the Aristocracy-the Several States. | | | Like other political systems Americans have the Federal Authority (the King), the Several States (the Aristocracy). | | | English nobles compelled Bad King John to sign a treaty, subjecting him to the authority of the law. |
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| | Aristocracy - Born To Rule 1875-1914 |
| | Many would marry wealthy American women to restore their dignity and fortune. | | | Sections for Aristocracy - Born To Rule 1875-1914 | | | In Brokeback Mountain, he plays a gay cowboy who has to hide his relationship with another man from his wife. |
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| | Thomas Jefferson, on Aristocracy - letter to John Adams |
| | With respect to Aristocracy, we should further consider that, before the establishment of the American states, nothing was known to History but the Man of the old world, crowded within limits either small or overcharged, and steeped in the vices which that situation generates. | | | If the person you suspect it may be known from the quaint, mystical and hyperbolical ideas, involved in affected, new-fangled and pedantic terms, which stamp his writings. | | | Thomas Jefferson, on Aristocracy - letter to John Adams |
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| | What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong with It? |
| | But in reality the US Constitution, as much as the British system it supposedly replaced, is little more than the Aristotelian tripartite model of king, aristocracy, and gentry (supposedly representing the commons), reformed to some degree as President, Senate, and House. | | | Conservatism promotes activist government that acts in the interests of the aristocracy. | | | Nor is Marxism of any use as politics. |
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| | NCAW Spring 05 Leanne Zalewski on Alexandre Cabnel's Portraits of American "Aristocracy" |
| | Charles Frederick Worth (1825-1895), was the couturier of European aristocracy from the early 1860s on, and Americans soon followed in their footsteps. | | | Cabanel's reputation in the United States was preceded by his success in Paris where, by the 1860s, he was already a favorite portraitist of European aristocracy, especially women. | | | In 1879 an American critic estimated that, aside from Ernest Meissonier, Cabanel was the best-known French artist in the United States. |
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| | 'The New Aristocracy' |
| | This is creating a permanent new American aristocracy, while starving the federal government of billions. | | | In 2004, the 20 percent of households with the lowest incomes received an average tax cut of $250; the middle 20 percent received an average tax cut of $1,090; and the top 20 percent were blessed with tax reductions averaging $78,460. | | | Meanwhile, major budget reductions are proposed for, among other things, medical care for those in need, watershed rehabilitation, environmental quality, research in nonfossil-fuel alternatives, and programs for the disabled and for children’s hospitals. |
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| | Aristocracy? - Stormfront White Nationalist Community |
| | What is everyone’s opinion of the old Aristocracies, in general? | | | In school we are also taught, this teaching is painfully evident in General Rants, that all Racialists are hateful and bigoted. | | | Here’s one comparison: When we think of Aristocracy, we often think of excess, waste, and aloofness, as we are taught in school, right? |
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| | A Defence of Aristocracy Chapter 1 |
| | In all things that really matter, however, there can be but two opinions — the right opinion and the wrong opinion. | | | And aristocracies who imagine that they can rule hedonistically and egotistically without the consent of the people are bound to fail and to be swept away. | | | Now, however, we know that all that is claimed for in-breeding in Chapter VII of this book, was not only entirely justified, but was also stated much too moderately. |
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| | FILM REVIEW -- Courting `Ridicule' / French aristocracy witty satirized |
| | With a surgeon's precision and trenchant wit, director Patrice Leconte slices open the French upper classes of the late 18th century and reveals the black, wilting heart beneath the pomp and pretense. | | | Your car donation helps build homes for families in need. | | | The indiscreet poisons of the aristocracy are on vivid display in ``Ridicule,'' a witty, visually splendid French costume drama that opens today at the Clay. |
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| | Labor aristocracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This theory of the labour aristocracy is controversial in the Marxist movement. | | | In the U.S. and Britain, the term "aristocracy of labor" is used as an implicit criticism of labor unions that have organized high-salary workers and have no interest in unionizing middle-income and lower-income employees--even in cases where organizing the unorganized would strengthen the unions involved. | | | In Britain those who hold to this theory include the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) and the Revolutionary Communist Group. |
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| | A Southern Aristocracy of Planters |
| | settlement of Virginia and emergence of a planter aristocracy |
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| | The Sundering of Society 1350-1500 |
| | Many noble families were wiped out by the 100 years' war and the civil wars that followed. | | | The aristocracy split into the great magnates and the local squires. | | | This had come to an end, and the population of europe was divided into competing national groups. |
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| | Aristocracies are also usually associated with monarchy but have frequently been in conflict with the sovereign over their respective rights and privileges. | | | The Prussian (Junker) aristocracy based its legitimacy not only on landed wealth but also on service to the state. | | | In Europe, their economic base was undermined during the 19th century by inflation and falling agricultural prices, leading to their demise as a political force after 1914. |
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| | Building Cathedrals |
| | This was "rule by the best." This is not, however, what we think of when we use the term aristocracy. | | | So the framers of American government created representative democracy, in which the people collectively decide who the "best" people are to run the government. | | | The founders of American democracy turned back to the original, philosophical definition of aristocracy when they built American government. |
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| | Search Results for aristocracy - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Essentially, this meant maintaining a cordial but careful relationship with the court and its complex system of reigning, retired, and cloistered emperors and with the great aristocracy of Kyoto, who... | | | First, its members were normally the lords of a number of men bound to them by an... | | | Beginning in September 1789, as editor of the newspaper L'Ami du Peuple (“The Friend of the People”), Marat became an influential voice in favour of the most radical and democratic measures,... |
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| | aristocracy on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Noblesse oblige: at its best, the old aristocracy stood for a commitment to public duty and a sense of fair play. | | | The best example of a modern landowning aristocracy that conducted government was in England from 1688 to 1832. |
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| | The Divine Aristocracy |
| | He has called you to be in His aristocracy. | | | God has His aristocracy: those who have wisdom, knowledge and understanding. | | | Now we begin to get into the aristocracy: Verses 13-18: “This wisdom I have also seen under the sun, and it seemed great to me: There was a little city with few men in it; and a great king came against it and besieged it, and built great snares around it. |
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| | My Sandmen: The Aristocracy of Pull... |
| | In his discussion in Ideas on Liberty, Thomas M. Wilson sums it up this way... | | | Sadly, many see this scandal as a free speech issue with Eason Jordan as the victim of a neo-macarthyan witch hunt, on the part of Conservative bloggers eager to silence dissent. | | | Free markets of speech, like capital, are built not on demands for respect, but on the consent of the genuinely respectful. |
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| | The Livingston family and American aristocracy |
| | Not only did this aristocracy resist, it also became the guiding class, to which Americans, rich and poor, aspired. | | | More than any other American family, Livingston was the example of an aristocracy, which stubbornly resisted the populist ideas, spread through the American Revolution. | | | About American aristocracy and how the Livingston family of New York fits in it as a representative of colonial and mercantile America's upper class |
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| | "False from Head to Foot": Aristocratic Pretentiousness in Punch and The Way We Live Now |
| | Prompted by his mother, Sir Felix Carbury slyly maneuvers to win the heart of the financier-swindler Melmotte's daughter, Marie, "the one heiress to all [Melmotte's] wealth" (Trollope, 31). | | | For instance, during Lady Pomona's dinner party, all the nobles (and some members of the bourgeoisie) who count themselves as important undoubtedly attend. | | | From moralizing tirades on noblemen's drunkenness and debauchery to cynical commentaries on their scrambling to marry wealthy bourgeois heiresses, many such articles made their way to the headlines and the daily gazettes. |
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| | Aristocracy |
| | The lower ranks of this ruling class ("gentlemen" and "esquires" in England) were not nobles, but were the people with a lot of money who could, and often did, work their way up into the titled aristocracy. | | | The ruling class were not all nobles, but rather the educated and wealthy class of families that ruled Europe. | | | The American Revolution, of course, made a point of not allowing any aristocracy whatsoever. |
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| | New Statesman (1996): Old wealth is always with us.(aristocracy in the United Kingdom)@ HighBeam Research |
| | The British aristocracy, judging by what happened in India, may be far from finished thinks Giles MacDonagh | | | The Indian government's abolition of aristocracy did not lessen the power of noble families nor improve the conditions of the poor. | | | The proposal to abolish the House of the Lords in the UK has little chance of creating social equality as could be learned from developments in India since the 1970s. |
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| | Aristocracy Cartoons |
| | Related topics: class, sob, snobs, stately home, stately homes, lottery, camelot, lord, lords, aristocracy, aristocrat, national lottery, tradesmans entrance, millionaires, millionaire, | | | Related topics: class, aristocracy, upper class, house or lords, lords, lord, pier, piers, piers of the realm, transport, public transport, transport policy, politics, | | | Related topics: peerage, peer, peers, gentry, lord, lords, aristocracy, celebrity, celebrities, b-list celebrity, b-list celebrities, who's who, who's whos, celebrity culture, famous, fame, |
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| | Aristocracy quotes |
| | “Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. | | | The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy. | | | “An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead” |
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| | Archaic Period-Economy |
| | These families by gaining economic power imposed themselves over the poorer farmers and they gradually constituted the aristocracy of the region (Hesiod, Works and Days 338-341). | | | It should be noted however that Solon's reforms, as it turned out in the long run, were advantageous for Athens' wealthy citizens. | | | In Boeotia since Hesiod's times, in the beginning of the 8th century BC, we observe that large plots of land are concentrated in the hands of certain families, through the institutions of marriage, dowry and testament. |
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| | Toppling the Corporate Aristocracy |
| | The aristocracy's primary goal is to pay shareholders as much as possible and pay employees as little as possible. | | | At some point you wake up and realize aristocracy itself is the problem-and you move to democracy-you don't wait for justice and equality to show up in some noble leader, you build them into social structures. | | | It's based on the divine right of kings: The interests of the king are paramount; the aristocracy alone has a say in government. |
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| | H.W. Edwards - Labor Aristocracy, Mass Base of Social Democracy - Section D |
| | Their stock-in-trade has been an anti-Bantu attitude in the first case; anti-Negro in the second. | | | It is a matter of record that white workers in South Africa enjoy a standard of living second only to the American. | | | As might have been deduced from the lack of a labor aristocracy and from the partial black presence, these Marxists never developed mass parties of, say, the Swedish Social Democratic type (although they themselves would never accept the Social Democratic label). |
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| | There are a limited number of positions in medical schools. | | | If we as a society believe that certain people are aristocrats (and as such are entitled to certain extra privileges), it will make it much more difficult to reform our dysfunctional systems. | | | What if we made information regarding these fields more available to the public, and in a form that was much easier to understand. |
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| | Readings on the French Revolution |
| | Many universities were exempt from taxation as were the thirteen Parlements, cites like Paris, the Church and the clergy, the aristocracy and numerous members of the bourgeoisie. | | | And of course, it was simply brilliant planning to continue to tax the peasants - peasants who, having nothing to contribute were, over the course of the century, forced to contribute even more. | | | Furthermore, a number of social groups and institutions did not pay taxes of any kind. |
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| | aristocracy - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | aristocracy : Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info] | | | Aristocracy : A Glossary of Political Economy Terms [home, info] | | | aristocracy : Columbia Encyclopedia, Six Edition [home, info] |
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| | Orion > Orion Magazine > November December 2003 > Jeffrey Kaplan |
| | In the era's burgeoning textile and nascent railroad industries, and in its rising commercial class, de Tocqueville had already detected a threat to the "equality of conditions" he so admired in America. | | | The old land-based aristocracy of Europe at least felt obliged "to come to the help of its servants and relieve their distress. |
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| | review : Aristocracy 2004 : maps : mapraider.com |
| | Please note: The views and opinions represented in this review are user submitted, and do not necessarily represent the opinions or views of Mapraider.com or our affiliates. | | | Godlike was really tense and with custom bots set to full, it can be quite hairy in some situations, but like I said before this is a lanners map any day, but it's also nice to practice on for those lans, when set to full you can at least hold your own at a lan. | | | Welcome to Mapraider.com - community moderated ratings and reviews |
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| | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Love Romances Of The Aristocracy, by Thornton Hall, F.S.A.. |
| | Project Gutenberg's Love Romances of the Aristocracy, by Thornton Hall This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. | | | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Love Romances Of The Aristocracy, by Thornton Hall, F.S.A.. | | | No time, no change, no future flame shall move |
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| | Marble and Marzipan: The Edwardian Aristocracy |
| | The life of the modern aristocracy is not half as glamorous as it was in the late century. | | | I just wondered how you were received being a nobleman? | | | I may not agree with the way they used their power, but I admire them anyway. |
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| | BW Online May 21, 2004 Against the American Aristocracy |
| | But instead of eliminating the tax, it would be far easier to reduce the amount that is exempt so that only the most rarified have to take the tax into consideration. | | | It's bad public policy to actively encourage the creation of an aristocracy of privilege and inherited wealth, especially in a high-tech, integrated global economy that values meritocracy, entrepreneurship, and human capital. |
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| | aristocracy from FOLDOC |
| | Nearby terms: argumentum « argumentum ad populum « Aristippus « aristocracy » aristotelianism » aristotelian logic » Aristotle |
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