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  • Misgovernment of this kind is not a partisan phenomenon, of course.

    Obama and 'Regulatory Capture' 2009

  • Misgovernment by a single sovereign or tyrant is too frequent and too individual to be worth a generalized inquiry.

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • Misgovernment by a single sovereign or tyrant is too frequent and too individual to be worth a generalized inquiry.

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • Misgovernment by a single sovereign or tyrant is too frequent and too individual to be worth a generalized inquiry.

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • Misgovernment by a single sovereign or tyrant is too frequent and too individual to be worth a generalized inquiry.

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • [Sidenote: English abolition movement] [Sidenote: Gladstone's first speech in Parliament] [Sidenote: Misgovernment in Ireland] [Sidenote: Irish resentment]

    A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914

  • Tyranny and Misgovernment of those that have been placed over them, I will not spend time to mention either France, or Spain, or the Empire, or other countries; volumes may be written of it.

    State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) Harry Lushington Stephen 1902

  • Misgovernment and the unequal distribution of wealth and land affect population indirectly only, and can only act through one or other or all of the checks already mentioned.

    The Fertility of the Unfit Rutherford Waddell 1900

  • Misgovernment was a greater danger than good government was a benefit, because good government, particularly on the part of Federal officials, consisted, apart from routine business, in letting things alone.

    The Promise of American Life Herbert David Croly 1899

  • Misgovernment is a sure sign that God has withdrawn His mandate from the emperor, who is no longer fit to rule.

    The Civilization of China Herbert Allen Giles 1890

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