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In reply to the discussion: I Simply Do Not Understand Obama's Support Of The TPP. [View all]deutsey
(20,166 posts)"Its much closer to pure class warfare, a defense of the right of the privileged to keep and extend their privileges. Its not Ayn Rand, its Ancien Régime."
The Ancien Régime (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃.sjɛ̃ ʁeˈʒim], Old or Former Regime) was the monarchic, aristocratic, social and political system established in the Kingdom of France from approximately the 15th century until the later 18th century ("early modern France" under the late Valois and Bourbon dynasties. The administrative and social structures of the Ancien Régime were the result of years of state-building, legislative acts (like the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts), internal conflicts and civil wars, but they remained a confusing patchwork of local privilege and historic differences until the French Revolution ended the system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancien_R%C3%A9gime