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Power Is Intoxicating; Beware of Drunk People

In a pun for the ages, Samuel Adams said “power is intoxicating.” That’s why we say people get “drunk on power.”

If this is true, why do we keep giving drunk people the keys to our liberty?

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Power From the People

John Locke’s Case Against Absolute Rule

Anti-Federalist Warnings: Government Power is Forever

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