1. 19 The propertied class which called itself liberal was immediately opposed to universal suffrage and to the masses in general.

2. 12 The propertied class which called itself liberal was immediately opposed to universal suffrage and to the masses in general.

3. Bismarck made use in a Bonapartist fashion of the antagonism between the propertied classes and the rising proletariat overcoming in this way the antagonism within the two propertied classes, between the Junkerdom and the bourgeoisie, and raised a military-police apparatus over the nation.

4. 17 However, a resurgence of working-class agitation during 1833-4 alarmed the Whig government and the propertied classes in general.

5. Popular Antislavery mobilization, involving a large swath of Britain’s working class, certainly helped make slave abolition possible within a society whose propertied leadership showed little inclination to take any such initiative on its own