“In Federalist No. 47, James Madison warned that “[t]he 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.”
Citation: (Project 2025, Section 1.2: Executive Office of the President of the United States, Russ Vought, page 75, paragraph 3.)
Context:
This statement has all of the self-awareness of a dog licking its own ass in public, to quote popular commentator Jim Wright. Concentrating the power behind only the President, as Vought is arguing for, is the very definition of “accumulating all powers in the hands of one”, which as he admits it follows, would be the “definition of tyranny”.
Full contextual analysis of Section 1.2: Executive Office of the President of the United States here.
Categories: Founding Fathers, Government