… is from James Madison’s 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, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
DBx: Indeed. Yet today, leaders of, and cheerleaders for, both major U.S. political parties seem to believe that as long as politicians are chosen democratically, any such concentration of power in one branch of government is not only acceptable, but desirable.
Happy Constitution Day, fellow Americans.
