Assertion: tyrant | /r/AtLocation | power
Facets:
value: through a legitimate means
type: MANNER
value: outside the conventions of democracy
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: In ancient Greece, tyrants were influential opportunists that came to power by securing the support of different factions of a deme.
text: In his article, "The First Tyrants in Greece," Robert Drews paraphrases Aristotle as saying that the tyrant was a degenerate type of monarch who came to power because of how insufferable the aristocracy was.
text: Yet because the tyrant comes to power outside the conventions of democracy designed to curb power, and has demonstrated contempt of ideals like rational debate and discourse, he is left unaccountable.
text: In most circumstances, a private citizen morally cannot kill a tyrant by oppression, because the tyrant came to power through a legitimate means and thereby the community must depose him.
text: In a powerful chapter, Greenblatt homes in less on the tyrant himself than on those who have allowed him to come to power