tyranny. 1. The severe deprivation of a natural right. 2. The accumulation of all powers — the legislative, executive, and judicial — in the same hands (whether few or many). • Sense 2 expresses the Madisonian view of tyranny, to be found in The Federalist, No. 47. 3. Arbitrary or despotic government; the severe and […]
The division of governmental authority into three branches of government — legislative, executive, and judicial — each with specified duties on which neither of the other branches can encroach; the constitutional doctrine of checks and balances by which the people are protected against tyranny. Cf. DIVISION OF POWERS. [Cases: Constitutional Law 50–80(4). C.J.S. Constitutional Law
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