1. My thoughts
... faith. To the frustration of both self-made men and plebeians, certain eighteenth-century elitist republican assumptions remained strong, especially in the seaboard states, mandating that government be left to a natural aristocracy of virtuous, propertied gentlemen. Simultaneously, some of the looming shapes of nineteenth-century capitalism "chartered corporations, commercial banks, and other private institutions "presaged the consolidation of a new ... tyranny, not democracy. Above all, they believed that personal rectitude and industriousness, not alleged political inequalities, dicta...
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