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Having discussed the potentiality for the new middle class to participate as a responsible, rational, public-minded citizenry, let us now turn to the problem of law. Since law was linked in its origins and its entire history with the commercial classes, since it was carried by these classes alone, will law decline and be replaced by bureaucratic mles and regulations? Or will law and legal authority be supported and sustained by the bureaucratically based new middle classes?
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5 The New Middle Class and Law
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Glassman, R.M. (1997). The New Middle Class and Law. In: The New Middle Class and Democracy in Global Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371880_6
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