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— Aristotle"The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy."
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Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the most effective parts of a community for a given end, hence its energy, efficiency and success.
— James F. Cooper
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Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies, except North Carolina, were on the whole similar to Virginia in these respects.
— Carl L. Becker
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