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<!-- generated: provider=openrouter model=arcee-ai/trinity-large-preview:free date=2026-02-19 source=book-3-chapter-02 -->
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# Freeholder Yeomanry
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## Definition
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Independent small landowners who possess freehold property and enjoy political rights through their land ownership, representing a class of economically secure and politically influential farmers who have direct stake in land improvement and national prosperity.
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## Source Chapter
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Book III, Chapter 2
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## Context
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Smith presents the English yeomanry as uniquely prosperous and respected compared to continental Europe, attributing this to legal protections including secure leases, the forty-shilling freehold vote qualification, and laws preventing landlords from exploiting improvements made by tenants without leases.
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## Economic Domain
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Production
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