... with the settlement of these compromises were two other underlying elements. First, the government of eighteenth century England played "a very restricted role in society", acting only when forced to. The final underlying element was the general belief that those in office belonged in office. The belief "that ... leadership in politics should fall to the leaders of society -- natural leaders, leaders in status, in wealth, and in the skills associated with a superior style of life."(p27) The manifest elements ... that followed were the seedbed period for the ideologies that would becom...

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