User:Toussaint/Nobilism

Nobilism is the advocacy of establishment, preservation, or restoration of a class of nobility as a state-recognized, state-sanctioned division of society. It is related to monarchism and royalism except for the advocacy of such as a system of rule. Outside of monarchies, nobilism may also be seen in the form of life senators in upper houses of a legislature, as well as in the local governance of a traditional aboriginal ethnoculture which holds no sovereign title over the land apportioned to it (i.e., the chiefdoms on Native American and First Nations reservations in the United States and Canada).

Systems of nobility may be advocated by its proponents as a means to recognize the legacy of an individual, past or present, who has contributed in any way to a state's culture, welfare or stability; this extends to the invitation of such-recognized nobles to ensured, protected participation in politics for some time to come (akin to the offering of a life-long academic tenure to a professor by a university). Furthermore, advocates of nobilism, including hereditary nobilism, may view nobility as a means of ensuring the stability, longevity and survivability of a society and its culture by sanguineal means.