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Concentrating legislative, executive and judicial power in the same hands is the definition of tyranny
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- James Madison American statesman (1751 to 1836)
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
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↗The Federalist Papers (1787-1788)gutenberg.org
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