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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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790 |
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AUTHOR:
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James Madison (1751–1836) |
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QUOTATION:
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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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ATTRIBUTION:
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JAMES MADISON, The Federalist, ed. Benjamin F. Wright, no. 47, p. 336 (1961). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Government—separation of powers |
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