propertied

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Hamilton feared a slippery slope toward rule by the people, not the propertied, threatening the development of capitalism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

County, Sepulveda Boulevard, 40 miles from Mission Hills to Long Beach, named for Francisco Xavier Sepulveda, the propertied pioneer rancher and paterfamilias to the influential founding family.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2022

It doesn’t matter whether they are citizens or aliens; free, imprisoned or enslaved; enfranchised or disenfranchised; adults or children; propertied or propertyless.

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2021

When America was founded, only white, propertied men could vote.

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2021

He who did not know that the entire propertied class made a regular profession of perjury and fraud in order to cheat the public treasury out of taxes, was either deliciously innocent or singularly uninformed.

From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Gustavus, Myers