Sentences with phrase «overweening power of the state»
She maintained a deep suspicion of the overweening power of the state.
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Wills's contention that Madison was a proponent of legislative supremacy among the branches is unconvincing given that it was the overweening power granted legislatures by the state constitutions that Madison and other Federalists sought to avoid at the federal level in the Constitution.
The Song of Deborah comes «from below»; it is the voice of an oppressed peasantry protesting the overweening power of the Canaanite city - states.
Because the state and other large institutions could reach individuals only through these mediating bodies, these thinkers provided them with defense against the state's overweening power, as well as the economic power of the large industrial enterprises.