 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...  Documents of the Canadian Constitution, 1759-1915 - Page 140de William Paul McClure Kennedy - 1918 - 707 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1831 - 758 pages
...meaning. " When the legislative " and executive powers are united in the same person or body," says he, "there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may...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... | |
 | William Paley - 1835 - 324 pages
...by Montesquieu : " When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body, there can be no liberty ; because apprehensions may...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... | |
 | Tracts - 1836 - 506 pages
...•" 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...monarch, or senate, should enact tyrannical laws, or execute them in a tyrannical manner. "Again, there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1837 - 516 pages
...meaning. " When the legislative " and executive powers are united in the same person or body," says he, "there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may...tyrannical " laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner." Again, " Were " the power of judging joined with the legislative, the life and lib" erty of the subject... | |
 | Thomas George Western, Jean Louis de Lolme - 1838 - 628 pages
...another. 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...tyrannical laws to execute them in a tyrannical manner. (See Montesq. Sp. Laws, b. ii. c. 2. Even Mirabeau, the idol of all who aim at natural liberty, distinguished... | |
 | 1842 - 492 pages
...meaning. " When the legislative and " executive powers are united in the same person or body," says he, " there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may...monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to exe" cute them in a tyrannical manner." Again, " Were the power of " judging joined with the legislative,... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1876 - 650 pages
...that " when the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may arise lest the monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. Again, there... | |
 | Thomas Gilpin - 1848 - 328 pages
...another. " When the legislative or executive bodies are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions...enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner."—Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, book ix. ch. vi. Having in the course of the present week,... | |
 | James A. Williams - 1848 - 188 pages
...the legislative and executive are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, then there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may...tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. Again, there is no liberty , if the judiciary power be not separated from the legislative and executive.... | |
 | John Adams - 1851 - 666 pages
...almost one and the same power. " The judiciary power ought not to be given to a standing senate ; it should be exercised by persons taken from the body of the people, as at Athens, at certain times of the year, and pursuant to a form and manner prescribed by law, in... | |
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