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On the recordSeptember 3, 2018
If there were some perfect group of people, we would put all the power in that one body, but because we are imperfect, putting all the power in that one body would be, as Senator Klobuchar was saying, the definition of tyranny.
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Mike Lee
Republican · Utah

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Lee discusses the need to separate power due to human imperfection.

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