It is commonly agreed that the rule of law is one of the great bulwarks against the exercise of arbitrary power.
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By denying any one government complete jurisdiction over all the concerns of public life, federalism protects the liberty of the individual from arbitrary power.
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Americans did not fight the British Crown in 1776 merely to replace one tyrannical government possessing unlimited, arbitrary power over their lives with another.
In general, it can probably be said that the conservative does not object to coercion or arbitrary power so long as it is used for what he regards as the right purposes.
Glimpses of leading thinkers and the human values they argued for include Immanuel Kant (moral and intellectual autonomy), Benjamin Constant (protection from arbitrary power) and John Stuart Mill (promotion of human individuality).
Electoral reform in Scotland and Wales has achieved its object of ensuring that a party without a majority of the votes cannot claim the arbitrary power of a sovereign majority, though the prime minister appears to have been surprised to discover that this was the case.
The earned income credit actually works as an arbitrary ceiling on earning power.
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Arbitrary selection via an accident of birth may be no less fair than voluntary selection via a desire for power.
Even if voters understood what nominal GDP was - as they currently don't - will they really ever believe that a government is going to withstand years of well above, or well below, target inflation, simply to get back to a particular, fairly arbitrary path for the cash value of the economy that was laid down by the folk who were in power before them?
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