 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.  Proceedings of The...reunion... - Page 34by Michigan legislative association - 1886Full view - About this book
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 | George Robertson - Kentucky - 1855 - 422 pages
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 | Clement Laird Vallandigham - Treason - 1863 - 292 pages
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 | Henry Barton Dawson - Constitutional law - 1863 - 770 pages
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