Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Edmund Burke

Speech at the Bristol Guildhall, September 6, 1780

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Law Legal theory Tyranny

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Edmund Burke

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Speech at the Bristol Guildhall, September 6, 1780

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English

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1780 1780s 18th century

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Burke, Edmund. Speech in the Bristol Guildhall. 6 Sept. 1780, Bristol Guildhall, Bristol, England, UK.

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Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field.

Edmund Burke

Reflections on the Revolution in France

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Edmund Burke
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
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English
Time
1790 1790s 18th century
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Original Citation

Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: James Dodsley, 1790.

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Burke, Edmund. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

James Madison

Federalist 47

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James Madison
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Federalist 47 The Federalist Papers
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English
Time
1788 1780s 18th century
Era
American Revolutionary Period
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Madison, James [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 47: The Particular Structure of the New Government and the Distribution of Power Among Its Different Parts." New York Packet, 1 Feb. 1788.

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Madison, James. "No. 47: Complete separation of powers not required.--Madison." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

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To establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.

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M'Naghten's Case
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Time
1843 1840s 19th century
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Tindal, Nicholas Conyngham. Delivering an exposition of the rules. M'Naghten's Case. c. 1843, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

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The real or supposed necessity of treating the Negroes with rigor gradually brings a numbness upon the heart and renders most of those who are engaged in it too indifferent to the sufferings of their fellow creatures.

John Newton

Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade

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John Newton
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Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade
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Time
1780 1780s 18th century
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Newton, John. "Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade." Letters and Sermons. c. 1780.

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