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 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

The researchers recorded evidence of 46 such interspecies usurpations, with victors coming from either species in equal proportion.

From Scientific American • Feb. 14, 2015

The nobility had already usurped all the sovereign authority; they now in their zeal to confirm their usurpations, introduced the ambiguous clause, which was afterwards to be perverted to their own ruin.

From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various