Henry James Sumner Maine - It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of l...

Henry James Sumner Maine Zitate

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

Henry James Sumner Maine

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Es ist wahr, dass die Aristokratien ihr Monopol an juristischem Wissen offenbar missbraucht haben. Jedenfalls war ihr ausschließlicher Besitz des Gesetzes ein beachtliches Hindernis für den Erfolg jener Volksbewegungen, die in der westlichen Welt allgemein anzunehmen waren.

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