Sentences with 'elitist'
Example sentences and phrases with the word elitist and other words derived from it.
• « A scholarly work on Greek history, Frank Frost's Greek Society, describes the Spartans as "an experiment in elitist communism". »
• « Nevertheless, many Americans rejected the elitist and aristocratic republican order and advocated radical changes. Their efforts represented a groundswell of sentiment for greater equality, part of the democratic impulse unleashed by the Revolution. »
• « Whereas the founders conceived of America as a republic, not a democracy, and had placed safeguards such as the Electoral College in the Constitution of 1787 to prevent simple majority rule, by the early 1820s many Americans embraced majority rule and rejected the old forms of deference that were based on elitist ideas of virtue, learning, and family lineage. »
• « The nullification crisis illustrated the growing tensions in American democracy: an aggrieved minority of wealthy, elitist slaveholders opposing the will of the democratic majority; an emerging sectional divide between the South and the North over slavery; and a clash between those who believed in free trade and those who believed in protective tariffs to foster the nation's economic growth. »