usurpations

And I think it also follows that the so-called usurpations with which history is littered are the most excusable misdemeanors which men have committed.

What Is Man? and Other Essays Mark Twain 1872

In other words, in your view, what are the comparative weights you would assign to your agreements on his "measures and appointments" on the one hand, and your concerns about his "usurpations" on the other?

An Interview With Bruce Fein: A Conservative Concerned About Presidential Lawlessness 2006

Let this one chapter in that policy, this Kandyan chapter, proclaim how great must have been the evils from which our "usurpations" (as they are called) have liberated the earth.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various

King's Government, as "usurpations" on the chartered rights of the

The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 Egerton Ryerson 1842

~ John 10: 1 [In a broad sense, this verse made me think of illegitimate power grabs or "usurpations" so prevalent in the current revision of American government.]

LewRockwell.com 2009

[208] "But" declares Pike, "with tongue and pen, with all our open and secret influences, with the purse, and if need be, with the sword, we will advance the cause of human progress and labour to enfranchise human thought, to give freedom to the human conscience (above all from papal 'usurpations') and equal rights to the people everywhere.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

And following “a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Stamp Act 2010

Any other alternatives to amending — emanations or penumbras — are usurpations and tyranny.

The Volokh Conspiracy » A Better Question 2010

Still, … “when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Stamp Act 2010

“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” —

Congressional Democrats still wondering who the sucker was at yesterday’s summit. | RedState 2010