"If wealth is accumulated in the hands of a few, either by a feudal or a stock monopoly, it carries the power also; and a government becomes as certainly aristocratical, by a monopoly of wealth, as by a monopoly of arms. A minority, obtaining a majority of wealth or arms in any mode, becomes the government."

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Source : John Taylor (2013). “An Inquiry Into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States”, p.255, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

John Taylor

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