Why would increasing the size of the aristocracy lower their power

hey regulated religious worship and social gatherings; increased their size of courts; created new government bureaucracies to control economic life; kept the influence of aristocracy and governmental bodies, like Parliament down.

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the end of the gilded age coincided with the panic of 1893, a deep depression, which lasted until 1897 and marked a major political realignment in the election of 1896. this productive but divisive era was followed by the progressive era.