"When a strict interpretation of the Constitution, according to the fixed rules which govern the interpretation of laws, is abandoned, and the theoretical opinions of individuals are allowed to control its meaning, we no longer have a Constitution; we are under the government of individual men, who for the time being have power to declare what the Constitution is, according to their own views of what it ought to mean."
Even earlier, Jan 30, 1788, James Madison wrote in Federalist 47...
"...the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
The point is, look at those statements from so long ago, and compare them the both the big political parties, and the current administration. Regarding the latter, you will come to see that appointing czars, waging war without Congressional approval, and the multitude of other actions undertaken by Barack Obama, he is quickly taking on the mantle implied and mentioned in those two quotes.
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