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so:text Oligarchies have generally sprung from the ruins either of monarchy or of democracy. When supreme power falls into the hands of a weak sovereign, the great nobles encroach upon the prerogatives of the monarch. In democracies particular families or individuals acquire, by their talents, their wealth, or their virtues, an influence which loses its original character of responsibility, and becomes permanent and self-dependent. (en)
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so:description Principles of Government: Or Meditations in Exile (1856) (en)
so:description Chapter I. On the Origin of Different Kinds of Government (en)
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