aristoi

They thought that if there should be any sort of an "aristoi" it should be based on merit, and change from generation to generation.

Challenging Abramoff's "Artificial Aristocracy" 2006

When the power elite, aristoi/aretes say conservatism its in the old sense of monarchs.

Think Progress » Will Brown Give Back The Federal Money That Subsidized Health Reform In Massachusetts? 2010

I wonder when Dr Hunt is going to figure out that neo-cons are not traditional, in the American sense, but more of a pseudo aristoi of the empirical TORY ideology.

Think Progress » Podesta Responds To Roberts’ ‘Troubling’ Comment With Call For Supreme Court To Be Televised 2010

This [bill] on education would [raise] the mass of the people to the high ground of moral respectability necessary to their own safety and to orderly government, and would [complete] the great object of qualifying them to secure the veritable aristoi for the trusts of government, to the exclusion of the pseudalists...

Mr. Jefferson, meet Mr. Duncan doyle 2009

This [bill] on education would [raise] the mass of the people to the high ground of moral respectability necessary to their own safety and to orderly government, and would [complete] the great object of qualifying them to secure the veritable aristoi for the trusts of government, to the exclusion of the pseudalists...

Archive 2009-01-01 doyle 2009

Jefferson also argued against the creation of a pseudo-aristoi, an artificial aristocracy created by wealth and lack of accountability.

Tea, Oil, Drugs and Mortgages Ellen Beth Gill 2008

Our constitutional democratic representative republic would become the envy of the world if we, thought Jefferson, can attract and elect such well qualified leaders into office: "May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?"

John Seery: Outrage Fatigue 2008

If he comes from more humble circumstances than most top administration officials, it is essential that her or his strength of character and self-confidence be such that there is no need to depend on the anointing of Washington hoi aristoi for reassurance of self worth.

Seeking Integrity at the CIA 2008

This is what Aristotle understands by an "aristocratic" constitution: literally, the rule of the aristoi, i.e., best persons.

Aristotle's Political Theory Miller, Fred 2002

Page view page image: constitutions, to leave to the citizens the free election and separation of the aristoi from the pseudo-aristoi, of the wheat from the chaff.

The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia 1900