The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definit…

Thomas Jefferson
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The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2010). The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786, p.20, Cosimo, Inc.
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