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Abdicating responsibility for ending hunger as a national issue is “a proposal to take us back to a dark time in our history,” she said.

From The Guardian • May 28, 2017

Abdicating this role to Presidents or anyone else, Sirica said in a footnote, "would dishonor the genius of our constitutional system and breed unbearable abuse."

From Time Magazine Archive

And we have already made it plain, that the People reserv'd to themselves all the Power not only of Creating, but also of Abdicating their Kings.

From Franco-Gallia Or, An Account of the Ancient Free State of France, and Most Other Parts of Europe, Before the Loss of Their Liberties by Hotman, François