"The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position."
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George Washington, Farewell Address, originally published in Daved Claypole's American Daily Advertiser on September 19, 1796.
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