"In Democracies, there is a besetting disposition to make publick opinion stronger than the law. This is the particular form in which tyranny exhibits itself in a popular government; for wherever there is power, there will be found a disposition to abuse it...The most insinuating and dangerous form in which oppression can overshadow a community is that of popular sway."
January 1, 1970
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