Excerpt from The Three Powers of GovernmentThe sentence denounced may be unjust, without excuse or palliation. There is no power to stop it, except the power which decrees it shall be executed. The proceedings may be as secret as the grave. The husband or father, the son and brother, the wife and daughter, may disappear, without a trace left behind by which to discover the place of imprisonment or of burial, or the arrest, incarceration, and execution, may be at high noon, in the presence Of weeping relatives and trembling spectators, and the doom be equally beyond any power of delay or prevention.I have thus described some Of the most odious forms of des potie power.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.