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Thursday, July 4, 2019

“Independence Day” 2019: Donald Trump, Ivanka, and Federalist No. 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.[1]

James Madison, Federalist No. 47 (1788).  Emphasis added.



[1] See, for example, Lawrence Martin “The Royal White House: King Donald grooms Ivanka as his successor,” The Globe and Mail, Wednesday July 3, 2019, p. A11.

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