Both of these provisions were created with the intention of softening the effect of the draft on pacifists, the anti-draft movement, and the propertied classes.
en.wikipedia.org The state could control, after all, without owning, guided by a single party, the economy could be planned and directed without dispossessing the propertied classes.
hotair.com The aristocracy and propertied classes were desperate to hold onto their traditional power while lower class dissent fermented underneath.
www.npr.org This presumption has been criticised on the ground that it is essentially sexist, or at least belonging to the propertied classes of a different social era.
en.wikipedia.org Historically, we've seen marriage go from something that once only propertied classes practiced, to a much more democratic affair -- from polygamous to dyadic; from arranged to companionate.
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