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   This consolidated Government will be an iron handed despotism.

   1993, Bernard Bailyn, The Debate on the Constitution Part 1: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Stuggle over Ratification. Part One: September 1787 to February 1788, →ISBN

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   The next consequence that will attend the adoption of this Constitution is, that from the ruins of the State Governments, will be produced one consolidated Government, which, from the nature of things, will be an iron handed despotism.

   1987, Theodore Dreiser, Dreiser: Sister Carrie; Jennie Gerhardt; Twelve Men, →ISBN, page 785

   But to think that in his heyday, that sweet, pathetic old man had been quite the iron handed hierarch; hated and feared by all those who fell subject to his purview.

   2007, Hiram Blunt, The High Priest of Prickly Bog, →ISBN, page 287