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The middle classes--the ordinary majority of educated men--are in the present day the despotic power in England.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “The middle classes--the ordinary majority of educated men--are in the present day the despotic power in England.”
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Bagehot claims that the middle classes hold significant power in England's political landscape.
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