 The concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation, that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. One hundred and seventy-three despots would...  The English in America - Page 266de Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1851Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 574 pages
...concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. 173 despots would surely be as oppressive as onej Let those who — ' doubt it turn their eyes on the... | |
 | American Academy of Political and Social Science - 1894 - 904 pages
...concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands and not by a single one. ' ' So in the convention of 1787 " Wilson, of Pennsylvania, was most apprehensive that the legislature,... | |
 | United States. President - 1897 - 528 pages
...concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised...oppressive as one. Let those who doubt it turn their eyes on the Republic of Venice. As little will it avail us that they are chosen by ourselves. An elective... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - 1897 - 722 pages
...concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised...oppressive as one. Let those who doubt it turn their eyes on the Republic of Venice. As little will it avail us that they are chosen by ourselves. An elective... | |
 | United States. President - 1897 - 858 pages
...concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised...oppressive as one. Let those who doubt it turn their eyes on the Republic of Venice. As little will it avail us that they are chosen by ourselves. An elective... | |
 | United States. President - 1897 - 584 pages
...concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised...seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one. " "As little will it avail us that they are chosen by ourselves. An elective despotism was not the... | |
 | United States. President - 1897 - 794 pages
...concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised...seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one." "As little will it avail us that they are chosen by ourselves. An elective despotism was not the government... | |
 | United States. President - 1897 - 794 pages
...concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be n0 alleviation that these powers will be exercised by...seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one." "As little will it avail us that they are chosen by ourselves. An elective despotism was not the government... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1898 - 884 pages
...but the all-powerful state legislatures, which proved again and again, as Jefferson asserted, that "one hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one." ' The revolt of Shays, and the less aggressive but universal discontent against the state governments... | |
 | Gamaliel Bradford - 1899 - 548 pages
...concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands and not by a single one." With reference to the President's veto Judge Story remarks : — There is a natural tendency in the... | |
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