Other agencies, small and great, executive, legislative, and even judicial, are absorbed in a transcendent triune power, which, for the time, declares its absolute will, while holding alike the scales of justice and the sword of the executioner.
Sumner reflects on the concentration of power in government and its implications for justice and authority.
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