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The right to vote for these positions was not universal, however, being limited to propertied men.

That was considered much too dangerous a privilege even for our small propertied electorate.

Indeed, a communal society is established despite the objections of the propertied class.

A member of the propertied classes-worse than that: a doctor, former quality.

Legislative assemblies, although elected by propertied voters, have little real power.

Besides, at the worst, there was always a propertied widowhood to be looked forward to.

The propertied classes began to respond to fuel and food shortages when the Frost was about two weeks old.

The propertied classes rallied to the government and called for a halt to all disturbances.

Propertied men voted; in no colonies was there universal suffrage.

He fostered government by the unwashed masses instead of the propertied classes.

This was opposed, not simply to kings and aristocrats, but to the propertied minority.

The Conservative Party has always stood quite definitely for the established propertied interests.

The poorest of the propertied men of the city comprised the fifth class.

The propertied class is overrepresented in the governing institutions of all advanced capitalist states.

It is likely then that marriages, at least amongst the propertied, in fact lasted longer during the Victorian period than ever before or since.

Potentially democratic ideas thus provided a justification for rule by a propertied oligarchy.

Of propertied classes and speculators when they have long since been abolished by earlier decrees!

"I was brought up in the propertied classes, and with all their horror of offences against property.

In time, women of the propertied classes copied these outfits worn originally be rural workers.

The Volunteer Corps typically drew its members from the propertied classes.

For this scheme to work it was important to get the right proportion of labouring to propertied immigrants.

They also raised the issues of religious freedom and popular participation (although the participation was limited to the propertied).

But the number of those who compromised their faith was largest among the propertied and those well up in the social hierarchy.

State patronage of Buddhism took the form of massive propertied foundations.

Eventually a series of acts were passed that met the needs of the propertied frontiersman.