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Absolute political power
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Byzantine history shows that concentrated power tends to corrupt rulers.
“I think it shows you what happened. What is it, Lord Acton? Absolute power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Like, that's quite clear throughout Byzantine history.”
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