It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.
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The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
The Royal Family have always had an interest in a number of different areas of society. We are a part of society.
In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.
There's an unhealthy obsession in America with royalty and the class system.
It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth, that it is even a sign of softheadedness and weakness. The oligarchical power feeds on the sense that we are all individuals, struggling on our own, and ennobled by the effort.
It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.
The idea of equal rights was in the air.
We have allowed an unholy alliance of government - the new monarchy - and corporate influence - the new aristocracy - to take control of events in a way that would have made our Founders shudder.
What supposedly bound that Commonwealth together was a mysterious shared identity - Britishness.
Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.
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