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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 790 |
| AUTHOR: | James Madison (1751–1836) |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | JAMES MADISON, The Federalist, ed. Benjamin F. Wright, no. 47, p. 336 (1961). |
| SUBJECTS: | Government—separation of powers |
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