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To: Publius
At 24, Hamilton points out the danger of the powers of the Legislative and the Executive branches ending up in the same hands.

We have seen very similar language previously and I quote Mr. Madison from Federalist 47:

No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. 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.

What do they mean by the term "same hands"?

I contend that they are talking about people with the same interests such as for example, librarians or plumbers, electricians or perhaps even lawyers. Oh! My gracious! It appears that if my reasoning is correct one such group HAS accumulated such power and that group is lawyers!

5 posted on 12/27/2010 11:46:06 AM PST by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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To: Bigun
I think an example would be the tiny oligarchy that rammed National Socialist Healthcare into law.

Obamamao, Pelosi, Reid and their flying monkey assistants by the names of Steny Hoyer, Dick Durbin fit the description.

No hearings. Released in the dead of night. Promises and threats to recalcitrant members. It is possible that no single person knew the entirety of the bill.

Hundreds of rats voted to enact that which they never read and didn't care to read. They voted to rubber stamp the will of their leadership in the proudest tradition of totalitarian regimes.

Oligarchy, tyranny, whatever it was, it barely followed the merest forms of our Constitution. It must die.

6 posted on 12/27/2010 3:28:54 PM PST by Jacquerie (Where there is Islam there is no God.)
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