Land Owners Quotes
Zenzinov was often a critic of the Bolsheviks.
The Constitution allows the States to set the Federal Congressional Districts.
The word “proprietor” at the time meant someone who had title to land. The title was then almost always tied up with the aristocratic titles. “Great proprietors” were therefore nobles who owned and controlled large land holdings. The “improvers” tended to be the businessmen—especially the manufacturers and the transportation magnates. Large landowners could just make money by renting parts of their land to tenant farmers. They needed no capital, no vision, not much skill or talent, and they didn’t have to take any risks.
Mussolini and the Fascist majority had already gotten control of the government but their hold was then precarious.
As long as there have been attorneys and organized government, there have been attorney abuses of whatever systems exist. This was a major problem throughout America and continues to this day. For many interactions with government, attorneys and their skills are absolutely necessary. But for others, they are not. It is very difficult for many people to tell the difference, and the more bureaucratic and non-transparent the processes are, the easier it is for unscrupulous attorneys to take advantage.
Ironically most American politicians are independent of crowned-kings, but are very depended on money-kings and land-kings for campaign contributions and in some cases, jobs if they are defeated at the polls.
This is one of the first examples in America of city planning.
Jefferson was the leader of the Republican faction of the nation against the Federalists who had passed the leadership from Washington to John Adams. Adams was somewhat pompous and strove for respect, titles, pomp and circumstance preferring “His Excellency” to “Mr President.” The Federalists strove for stability and order above all. Jefferson itemized the different subgroups and interest groups of the American population who supported the Federalist and a government that was close to the British system, It was a classic split with the wealthy, established, and conservative forces lined up against change and completing the transition to a radically new form of government. The respect the electorate had for Washington kept the Federalists in power for the first three Presidential Elections, but now Jefferson had Adams as the face of Federalism—a much easier target than George Washington. Despite all the power—religious, economic, financial, and governmental—all lined up against the Democratic Republicans, Jefferson over the next four years took his case to the people, who in 1800 voted against the Federalists so overwhelmingly, that the Federalist Party was wiped out in America and Jefferson and his followers dominated American politics for the next two Presidential elections.
The Fascists had been in control of the Italian government for 4 years.
These unfortunate characteristics of Germany at that time, produced the aggressive nation that started two world wars. Looking at Germany a century later, the country has changed radically—especially the three factors described in this quote. Germany has become very much like the rest of Western Europe and America.
While Turgot was right about so much, this was one of his big errors—the assumption that land was fundamental to and necessary for, wealth. In many countries it is still true, but of the recent billionaires like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Carlos Slim and most others, they own very little land. In the United States and Canada, there are large tracts of land that few or no one will buy and a cast majority of people do not make their living from land.
