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The New Despotism

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  • In Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart

    His book The New Despotism (1929) was a powerful but not always temperate indictment of the quasijudicial powers granted to the executive and of the use made of them. On the other hand, champions of civil liberties approved of his opposition to governmental encroachments and bureaucratic restrictions.

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