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...principle of separation of powers. Accordingly, I concur only in the judgment. I The Framers perceived that "[t]he accumulation of all powers legislative, executive...whether of one, a few or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." The Federalist... | |
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...the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very de* finition of tyranny. Were the federal constitution therefore, real.ly chargeable with this accumulation... | |
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