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Hume

David Hume expresses skepticism toward power, arguing that authority must be justified by experience, custom, and usefulness rather than abstract claims or divine right. The advent of the rule of law and the emergence of an independent judiciary ended the tyranny of the feudal order. By exposing how unchecked power hides behind false certainty, he advances a durable insight for free societies: liberty survives where institutions are judged by their effects, not their pretensions.