...concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by...as one. Let those who doubt it turn their eyes on tile Republic of Venice. As little will it avail us that they are chosen by ourselves. An elective...

...concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by...seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one." "As little will it avail us that they are chosen by ourselves. An elective despotism was not the government...

...concentrating i,hese in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by...seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one." "As little will it avail us that they are chosen by ourselves. An elective despotism was not the government...

...concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by...seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one. " "As little will it avail us that they are chosen by ourselves. An elective despotism was not the...

...but the all-powerful state legislatures, which proved again and again, as Jefferson asserted, that "one hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one." ' The revolt of Shays, and the less aggressive but universal discontent against the state governments...

...concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands and not by a single one." With reference to the President's veto Judge Story remarks : — There is a natural tendency in the...

...precisely the definition of despcz:»government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exerci by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. One hundred seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one." "As IL t tie will it avail us that they...

...concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by...doubt it turn their eyes on the Republic of Venice. — NOTES ON VIRGINIA, viii, 361. FORD ED., iii, 223. (1782.) 3494. . I think the government in France...

...approximate the wishes of the community. Only a few great interests can be thus determined; where many issues exercised by a plurality of hands and not by a single one; one hundred and seventy-three despots will surely be as oppressive as one. An elective despotism was not the government we fought for. —...

...result to the legislature," 3 so that a genuine despotism was the outcome. It is no argument to say that these powers will be exercised " by a plurality...seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one. An elective despotism was not the government we fought for." 4 A true democracy must, to a certain...