"It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.“
-Henry James Sumner Maine
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![It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.](/_next/image?url=%2Fquotes%2Fhenry-james-sumner-maine%2F130872.png&w=1200&q=75)