Sentences with phrase «check against tyranny»
It provides the only effective check against tyranny and oppressive government.
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By republican structure, of course, I mean the separation of powers and the elaborate checks and balances that the founders of our country wrote into the Constitution as the main bulwarks against dictatorship and tyranny, which they greatly feared.
Tocqueville thought that one crucial check against the potential tyranny of the majority was the power of religion in forming mores.