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The '''Declaration Concerning Patricianship''' was [[Marian Hegemony]] policy that made membership in the patrician class strictly hereditary.<ref name=HB:MPSp155>''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 155: "Spotlight: Citizens and Slaves"</ref>

==Overview==
The inhabitants of the Marian Hegemony [[Periphery]] nation fell into three classes: patrician, pleb, and slave. Class was passed from parent to child unless steps were taken to change it. For the first few decades after the Hegemony's inception in [[2920]], patricians were those who owned land and wealthy plebs could become patricians by buying land. By the start of the [[thirty-first century]], however, all viable real estate in the Hegemony had been bought and developed, which allowed for virtually no upward movement. There were extreme cases such as [[Vanora Lindell]] who purchased two square meters of unusable land to legally grant patrician status, but generally this was not an option for most plebs because such land buys offered no income in which to sustain the patrician lifestyle.<ref name=HB:MPSp155/>

''[[Imperator of the Marian Hegemony|Imperator]]'' [[Marius O'Reilly]] recognized this reality when he authored the Declaration Concerning Patricianship that officially made patrician membership strictly hereditary. It passed by a fifty-one percent vote in the Senate in [[3013]].<ref name=HB:MPSp155/>

Following the Hegemony's conquering of the [[Lothian League]] in [[3055]]<ref name=FM:Pp70>''Field Manual: Periphery'', p. 70: "Nova Roma"</ref> and the [[Illyrian Palatinate]] in [[3063]],<ref name=FM:Pp71>''Field Manual: Periphery'', p. 71: "Peace through Superior Firepower"</ref> ''[[Caesar of the Marian Hegemony|Caesar]]'' [[Julius O'Reilly]] nullified the declaration in [[3064]] as pleb citizens were now able to buy land in those two provinces.<ref name=HB:MPSp155/>

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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Handbook: Major Periphery States]]''


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