In his 1956 essay The Road to Totalitarianism, economist Henry Hazlitt points out three tendencies that mark the pathway to tyranny.

1. The pressure for a constant increase in governmental intervention, in governmental spending, and in governmental power.
2. Increasing centralization and concentration of power in the hands of the president at the expense of the two coordinate branches of the government.
3. A tendency toward greater and greater concentration of power in the central government.

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