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political machine

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Noun1.political machine - a group that controls the activities of a political party; "he was endorsed by the Democratic machine"
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organization, organisation - a group of people who work together


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Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, pre- served for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.
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You are now up against the local police and political machine.
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The judgment which can penetrate into the cabinets of princes, and discover the secret springs which move the great state wheels in all the political machines of Europe, must surely, with very little difficulty, find out what passes in the rude uninformed mind of a girl.
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