Plebeians

Rome itself, were called Plebeians (_Plebs_, multitude).

Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. Robert Franklin Pennell

The former were called the Plebeians, the latter the Patricians.

Hannibal Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841

They say they'll acquiesce in allowing the Plebeians to vote on measures to shore up the state's fiscal crisis (even after Governor Jerry Brown and the Democrats already put forth $12.5 billion in budget cuts), but only after they lay waste to any state government agency, program, or institution that does not expressly serve the interests of corporations (many of them out of state).

Joseph A. Palermo: California: Where Elections Don't Matter Joseph A. Palermo 2011

Maybe with double-digit unemployment in much of the country, and decades of misguided public policy that has given us the widest gap between the rich and everyone else in history, America's ruling elite is getting a little nervous that the Plebeians might sour on the beneficence of free markets.

Joseph A. Palermo: Civic-Minded Plutocrats Joseph A. Palermo 2010

Maybe with double-digit unemployment in much of the country, and decades of misguided public policy that has given us the widest gap between the rich and everyone else in history, America's ruling elite is getting a little nervous that the Plebeians might sour on the beneficence of free markets.

Joseph A. Palermo: Civic-Minded Plutocrats Joseph A. Palermo 2010

Maybe with double-digit unemployment in much of the country, and decades of misguided public policy that has given us the widest gap between the rich and everyone else in history, America's ruling elite is getting a little nervous that the Plebeians might sour on the beneficence of free markets.

Joseph A. Palermo: Civic-Minded Plutocrats Joseph A. Palermo 2010

They say they'll acquiesce in allowing the Plebeians to vote on measures to shore up the state's fiscal crisis (even after Governor Jerry Brown and the Democrats already put forth $12.5 billion in budget cuts), but only after they lay waste to any state government agency, program, or institution that does not expressly serve the interests of corporations (many of them out of state).

Joseph A. Palermo: California: Where Elections Don't Matter Joseph A. Palermo 2011

Maybe with double-digit unemployment in much of the country, and decades of misguided public policy that has given us the widest gap between the rich and everyone else in history, America's ruling elite is getting a little nervous that the Plebeians might sour on the beneficence of free markets.

Joseph A. Palermo: Civic-Minded Plutocrats Joseph A. Palermo 2010

"Plebeians, patricians!" cries Simon Boccanegra, the pirate turned doge of Genoa, in a plea for peace in the great council chamber scene of Verdi's elusive opera.

Simon Boccanegra; 63rd Aldeburgh festival 2010

Maybe with double-digit unemployment in much of the country, and decades of misguided public policy that has given us the widest gap between the rich and everyone else in history, America's ruling elite is getting a little nervous that the Plebeians might sour on the beneficence of free markets.

Joseph A. Palermo: Civic-Minded Plutocrats Joseph A. Palermo 2010