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    History is filled with authoritarian takeovers: America’s Founders hoped to prevent them

    Madison defined tyranny as the executive, legislative, and judicial powers all being in the hands of one person or group.

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    Jamison is a retired attorney who writes on military affairs and other issues.

    Following Joseph Stalin’s March 1953 death, Marshal Giorgi Zhukov, the brilliant leading Soviet general in the defeat of Germany in World War II, waited nervously in secret with other Soviet senior officers in the room next to where the meeting of the Presidium was in progress at the Kremlin in June 1953. Zhukov and the others knew that if Lavrentiy Beria’s Kremlin guards discovered them, they would be killed.

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    Daniel O. Jamison is a retired attorney.

    The Supreme Court’s recent decisions on affirmative action and permissible discrimination by a business harken back to a discredited era.

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