Among the legislative classes embodied into, and constituting the government, we must place the landed aristocracy. In fact, the landed aristocracy and the government are one—the latter being nothing more than the organized means of preserving the power and privileges of the former.

— Thomas Hodgskin The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted (1832)

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