As the state became constitutionally limited through Parliament, which was dominated by the propertied interests, these interests no longer needed feudal protections against it. Free of the fear of expropriation by the state, the markets flourished, but sometimes to the detriment of the community. The fight for suffrage was, in many ways, a fight by the community for some of its lost power, the power to influence the state, and thereby markets. The democratically empowered community was positioned to help restore the balance.
