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Whether Whigs or Tories were in power, it was always the great families who ruled.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “Whether Whigs or Tories were in power, it was always the great families who ruled.”
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Laski notes that regardless of political affiliation, the ruling power in the eighteenth century was held by the great families.
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