The Founding Fathers Respond to Bushco
Apr. 1st, 2006 09:55 am"The White House asserts that its war powers are without bounds.
"James Madison answers in Federalist #47:
"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
cakmpls is right: This is brilliant:
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/03/what-would-founders-say.html
Thanks for the pointer,
cakmpls.
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"James Madison answers in Federalist #47:
"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
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http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/03/what-would-founders-say.html
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