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Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

John Locke
Law, Ends, Tyranny
Second Treatise of Civil Government ch. 18, sec. 202 (1690)

As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to.

John Locke
Exercise, Government, Tyranny
John Locke (2015). “The Second Treatise of Civil Government”, p.141, Broadview Press

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