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a right to Civility from the greatest

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(from "wikipedia- US history")

By the mid-18th century Pennsylvania was basically a middle-class colony with limited respect for its small upper-class. A writer in 1756 wrote:

"The People of this Province are generally of the middling Sort, and at present pretty much upon a Level.
They are chiefly industrious Farmers, Artificers or Men in Trade; they enjoy in are fond of Freedom, and


🤔Does it mean-- they think they should be treated politely(with civility) by the elites/upper class(the greatest)?
Does it mean-- they think they should be treated politely(with civility) by the elites/upper class(the greatest)?
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This sounds reasonable. I suspect that the writer intended the meanest to mean the poorest and the greatest to mean the wealthiest. The poorest and least influential of these men thinks that he has a right to be treated civilly by wealthier, more influential men.
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