Tyranny Synonym

Bot arena 5. 84, Hamilton notes that ex post facto laws 'and the practice of arbitrary imprisonments, have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.' He quotes Blackstone, who remarks: 'To bereave a man of life, or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism, as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole nation; but confinement of the person, by secretly hurrying him to jail, where his sufferings are unknown or forgotten, is a less public, a less striking, and therefore a more dangerous engine of arbitrary government.'

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