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Official Despotism
All Govern having exercise of the powers of government
every exercise of legislative power – of administrative power
in any branch of it is an exercise of will – every
will is the will of some person or persons – every will
that is not an individual act must originate with somebody
– with one that is
Malecontents and apt schemers of violations are apt
to confound the very exercise of government with the abuse
of it – to infer the abuse of it from the steadiness of it –
to give the name of despotic power: to any power which tye
observe to continue for a length of time in the same hands.
But the continuance of it in the same hands is a presumption
at least upon that the exercise of it is at any rate not universally
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