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  • The Northern Agrarian is brand new; not even a week old.

    Oh, Fine. Just Fine. John 2008

  • And in Agrarian Justice, he proposed a democratic system of addressing poverty that would entail taxing the landed rich to provide grants or “stakes” to young people and pensions to the elderly.

    Think Progress » Memories 2005

  • Agrarian contests of Rome, which were so long misunderstood; and through that misunderstanding has the word Agrarian, so proper in itself, been made to furnish one of the most reproachful terms that violent politicians have ever used when seeking to bespatter their foes.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various

  • Workingman's party but which became known as the Agrarian party.

    The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners Samuel Peter Orth 1897

  • Thomas Paine expressed the same idea in his essay titled Agrarian Justice.

    The bailout agreement. Ann Althouse 2008

  • On these trips to USSR, where I wandered around in both the European and the Asiatic parts, as well as those above the Arctic Ocean, and those known as Subtropics, I witnessed firsthand the great tragedy, and its results, known as the Agrarian Revolution; the breaking of the backbone of the Kulachs; the formation of great Collective and State Farms.

    The World As I Seed It 1951

  • The proprietors having found the fundamental constitutions disagreeable to the people, and ineffectual for the purposes of government, repealed all their former laws and regulations, excepting those called Agrarian Laws, and sent out a new plan of government to Mr. Ludwell, consisting of forty-three articles of instruction, for the better management of their colony.

    An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt

  • The laws enacted from time to time for this purpose were called Agrarian laws; and the phrase afterward passed into a sort of proverb, inasmuch as plans proposed in modern times for conciliating the favor of the populace by sharing among them property belonging to the state or to the rich, are designated by the name of Agrarianism.

    History of Julius Caesar Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879 1904

  • Artisans, and Citizens 'Party-generally known as the Agrarian Party-with the Democratic Party.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Artisans, and Citizens 'Party-generally known as the Agrarian Party-with the Democratic Party.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

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