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

The nation, he declared, could not remain “passive under these progressive usurpations, and these accumulating wrongs.”

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2017

So Congress passed a law to prevent such usurpations.

From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2017

He was soon to have his opportunity; in the meantime he awoke in Jefferson a revolt against clerical usurpations that was to bear its fruit in time.

From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert