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On the recordSeptember 3, 2018
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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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Durbin emphasizes the dangers of concentrated power in government.

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