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  • They thought that if there should be any sort of an "aristoi" it should be based on merit, and change from generation to generation.

    Challenging Abramoff's "Artificial Aristocracy" 2006

  • When the power elite, aristoi/aretes say conservatism its in the old sense of monarchs.

    Think Progress » Will Brown Give Back The Federal Money That Subsidized Health Reform In Massachusetts? 2010

  • I wonder when Dr Hunt is going to figure out that neo-cons are not traditional, in the American sense, but more of a pseudo aristoi of the empirical TORY ideology.

    Think Progress » Podesta Responds To Roberts’ ‘Troubling’ Comment With Call For Supreme Court To Be Televised 2010

  • This [bill] on education would [raise] the mass of the people to the high ground of moral respectability necessary to their own safety and to orderly government, and would [complete] the great object of qualifying them to secure the veritable aristoi for the trusts of government, to the exclusion of the pseudalists...

    Mr. Jefferson, meet Mr. Duncan doyle 2009

  • This [bill] on education would [raise] the mass of the people to the high ground of moral respectability necessary to their own safety and to orderly government, and would [complete] the great object of qualifying them to secure the veritable aristoi for the trusts of government, to the exclusion of the pseudalists...

    Archive 2009-01-01 doyle 2009

  • Jefferson also argued against the creation of a pseudo-aristoi, an artificial aristocracy created by wealth and lack of accountability.

    Tea, Oil, Drugs and Mortgages Ellen Beth Gill 2008

  • Our constitutional democratic representative republic would become the envy of the world if we, thought Jefferson, can attract and elect such well qualified leaders into office: "May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?"

    John Seery: Outrage Fatigue 2008

  • If he comes from more humble circumstances than most top administration officials, it is essential that her or his strength of character and self-confidence be such that there is no need to depend on the anointing of Washington hoi aristoi for reassurance of self worth.

    Seeking Integrity at the CIA 2008

  • This is what Aristotle understands by an "aristocratic" constitution: literally, the rule of the aristoi, i.e., best persons.

    Aristotle's Political Theory Miller, Fred 2002

  • Page view page image: constitutions, to leave to the citizens the free election and separation of the aristoi from the pseudo-aristoi, of the wheat from the chaff.

    The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia 1900

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