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Plutocracy

noun
1.
A political system governed by the wealthy people.





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"Plutocracy" Quotes from Famous Books



... privileged classes surrendered their powers to the monarch, the third estate was coming into its own. Not until the war of independence, however, was it able to withstand the combination of bureaucracy and plutocracy that made common cause with the central government against the local rights of the cities and the customary privileges of the gilds. Almost everywhere the prince was able, with the tacit support of the wealthier ...
— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith
... grown careless of manners, it has abandoned faith in its duty, it is conscious of no solemn obligations, it takes no interest in art, it is indifferent to science, it is sick of effort, it has surrendered gladly and gratefully to the materialism of plutocracy. ...
— The Mirrors of Downing Street - Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster • Harold Begbie


Words linked to "Plutocracy" :   form of government, plutocratic, political system, plutocratical


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