The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary…very definition of tyranny.

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary…very definition of tyranny.”

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

Year: 1788
Context: Federalist No. 47
Shortlink: http://fq1.us/39

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Keywords: accumulation of all powers, definition of tyranny, elective, executive, hereditary, judiciary, justly, legislative, pronounced, selfappointed

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