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frogcycle

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Tue Aug-21-07 11:54 AM
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13. I assume it is a holdover from British monarchy

The House of Lords and House of Commons

"Commoners" being people not "to the manor born."

We don't have a peerage system of Lords and Ladies, Earls, Dukes, Duchesses and such here in the US of A, so technically everyone is "common folk."

The ONLY semblance of it we have is inherited wealth. Someone born into money is generally more privileged, in that they can buy influence. Paris Hilton would be an example. So would John Kennedy, Nelson Rockefeller, Mitt Romney, Anderson Cooper, both Bushes.

Unless you want to demand that one has to have been a 'foundling' to be of the "common folk" it is a bullshit point.

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