usurpations

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“But in Republics of large extent, usurpations can scarcely make its way through these avenues,” Washington writes to “Friends & Fellow-Citizens,” in an address that was published in newspapers rather than delivered to Congress.

From Slate • Feb. 17, 2025

A guaranty by the national authority would be as much levelled against the usurpations of rulers as against the ferments and outrages of faction and sedition in the community.’

From Fox News • Mar. 29, 2019

So Congress passed a law to prevent such usurpations.

From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2017

“The classical republican convictions that Bailyn ascribed to America’s founders drew on a vocabulary of political pathology to predict tyranny, chaos, usurpations and conspiracies,” Dr. Appleby said in a 2012 lecture.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2017

From the time that the Carlovingian dynasty was established until the dissolution of the empire in 1806, the secular power had to continually struggle against the intrigues and usurpations of the Papal See.

From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by Alberger, John