8 sentences with 'abolition'
Example sentences and phrases with the word abolition and other words derived from it.
• « The abolition of privilege meant that a government - especially in matters of taxation and law - should treat people as individual citizens rather than as members of social classes. People differed quantitatively in the amount of wealth they possessed, but not qualitatively according to social rank or wealth. »
• « Likewise, most liberals favoured the abolition of archaic economic interference by the state, including legal monopolies on trade (for example, in shipping between colonies) and the monopolies enjoyed by the remaining craft guilds - the "right" to engage in commercial exchange unhindered by antiquated laws was also part of the liberal paradigm. »
• « Meanwhile, the Spanish communists sought a Russian-style communist revolution and, even further to the left, a substantial anarchist coalition aimed at the complete abolition of government. The centre-left coalition was thus increasingly under siege, as the far left gravitated and the nobility and clergy joined the army in an anti-parliamentary right. Two years of anarchy ensued, from 1933 to 1935. »
• « In addition, he has to deal with rising unemployment, a deepening recession, a growing demand to fundamentally reform the local tax system, following the abolition of the controversial "poll tax". »
• « Southern planters strongly opposed Jefferson's views on the abolition of slavery and the expulsion of blacks from the United States. »
• « Although racial thinking permeated the new country and slavery existed in all the new states, the ideals of the Revolution generated a movement toward the abolition of slavery. »
• « Conservative Whigs, wary of the idea of majority rule, rejected the abolition of property requirements for voting and office in Pennsylvania. »
• « In his 1829 treatise, The Rights of Man to Property, Skidmore called for the abolition of inheritance and the redistribution of property. »