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Legislative growth

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

Author Greg RavenPosted on August 11, 2011November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories governmentTags James Madison

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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