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despotical
1. But those exertions of the natural liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the whole society, are, and ought to be, restrained by the laws of all governments ; of the most free, as well as or the most despotical
2. Such a council can command obedience only by the military force with which they are accompanied ; and their government is, therefore, necessarily military and despotical
3. The authority of an Arabian scherif is very great; that of a Tartar khan altogether despotical
4. Speaker, that it is in the nature of tyrannical or despotical Governments to take arbitrary strides; yet, sir, I do believe that the impositions and oppressions heaped upon the American Government; the evils under which we at this time labor, are measurably, if not entirely, attributable to the party hostility arrayed against the Administration