Macaulay, the intellectualist of the Whigs, asserted that the extension of suffrage to the masses would surely result in arousing the predatory impulses of the propertyless masses who would use their new political power to despoil the middle as well as upper class.
Dewey recounts Macaulay's concerns about the political power of the propertyless masses.
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