And in the expressive and pointed language of Mr. Jefferson, when speaking of the tendency of the legislative branch of Government to usurp the rights of the weaker branches: The concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government.
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no nation in the tide of time has ever presented a spectacle of greater material prosperity than we have done until within a very recent period.
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