 When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical...  The History of Canada: Canada under British rule - Page 265de William Kingsford - 1892Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1978 - 364 pages
...united in the same person or body, there can be no liberty, because apprehension might arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. •United States Senator from North Carolina. i ARISTOTLE, POLITICS, book IV, ch. 14. See generally... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee - 1983 - 1104 pages
...same person or body," says he, "there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may arise lest the none monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws to execute them in a tyrannical manner." Again: "Were the power of judging joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the subject... | |
 | David F. Epstein - 2008 - 245 pages
...body," says he, "there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may arise [on peut craindre] lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws to execute them in a tyrannical manner." Again: "Were the power of judging joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the subject... | |
 | 1984 - 1220 pages
...in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner." Complete Works of Montesquieu, vol. I, 199 (London: 1777) (hereinafter "Montesquieu"). Montesquieu... | |
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