“If the power of government be very extensive, and the subjects of it have, consequently, little power over their own actions, that government is tyrannical, and oppressive; whether, with respect to its form, it be a monarchy, an aristocracy, or even a republic.”

Section III, "Of Civil Liberty"
Essay on the First Principles of Government, 2nd Edition (1771)

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