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Lysander Spooner: The Truth About “Checks and Balances”

Lysander Spooner: The Truth About “Checks and Balances”

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Spooner understood something most Americans still refuse to believe today. Every check on federal power you were taught about? They don’t work. Oaths? Meaningless. Elections? Theater. Separation of powers? Not in practice. As he put it, tyrants only care about one thing.

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Lysander Spooner: The Truth About “Checks and Balances”

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