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Trent Franks: “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands... may justly be pronounced the…”

On the recordFebruary 24, 2015
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands... may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
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Trent Franks
Arizona

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Franks cites Madison to discuss the dangers of power concentration.

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