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The Program is founded on a reaffirmation of peasant proprietorship.

From Time Magazine Archive

If more and more land is swamped in private enterprise, private revenue, it is a sine quâ non that peasant proprietorship must get less and less.

From Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman by Sieveking, Giberne

It ought to be that peasant proprietorship will make the holder more industrious and a better farmer than he has been as tenant.

From About Ireland by Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn)

Mackintosh knew of its authorship; for he warned its author against the amiable delusion that its excellence would persuade the British government to force a system of peasant proprietorship upon the East India Company.

From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Laski, Harold Joseph

Where the system of peasant proprietorship prevails most agricultural thrift is directed to the purchase and enlargement of farms.

From Historical and Political Essays by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole