The article reflects on Paul Revere's significant historical ride to alert colonists of an impending threat from the British. It draws parallels to present-day concerns about the Trump administration's expansion of executive power and its potential violation of constitutional principles. The author asserts that actions taken by Trump, such as dismantling government agencies and using executive orders to bypass Congress, could lead to tyranny akin to that described by James Madison in Federalist 47. The text highlights the importance of separation of powers as fundamental to safeguarding liberties.
The means he is using—unilaterally dismantling entire government agencies, taking upon himself the unchecked power to determine appropriations...violate the basic premise and purpose of the Constitution.
Madison put it succinctly in Federalist 47: The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands...may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
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