Voorbeelden van aristocracy

• A democracy that relied on this device was merely a "concealed aristocracy".

• The following years, moreover, arguably saw the law shed its associations with the gentry and aristocracy that had been characteristic of earlier decades.

• A government of the people was qualitatively different from monarchy or aristocracy, where powerholders were sufficiently unitary that governance could well satisfy them.

• Socially, the marriage alliances of the oligarchy consolidated it as a homogenous, but peculiar group, distinct from both aristocracy and bourgeoisie.

• Medical men, clergy, professionals and traders were prominent with various members of the aristocracy, gentry and clergy being enrolled as vice-presidents and patrons.

• Other lexical markers can be noted amongst the aristocracy.

• The working-class ' aristocracy ' and foremen were, however, paid on a weekly or monthly basis.

• The bishops constructed residences analogous to those of the political and social aristocracy.