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There is no succour ... against mobs & factions which have assumed despotic power.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “There is no succour ... against mobs & factions which have assumed despotic power.”
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Beveridge warns about the dangers posed by mobs and factions that seize power, highlighting the need for protection against tyranny.
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Is not liberty secure with us, where the people hold all powers in their own hands, and delegate them cautiously, for short periods, to their servants, who are accountable for the smallest mal-administration?...
Thus were the ideas of Nationality and localism in America brought into sharper conflict by the mob and guillotine in France.
Would they abandon their posts as judges, and the interests of millions committed to them, to serve the purposes of a single individual?
But an act universally recognized as criminal, such as robbery, murder, and the like, "is an offense against the community of nations.
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