Tudor state expansion allowed talented men to bypass birth status restrictions

Evidence

The first was the expansion of the Tudor state, which demanded more talent than high birth could supply. — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 29

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 29
• XREF: connects to: The state’s enlarged scope over patriarchs freed sons’ personalities — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 681