 | 1768 - 478 pages
...magiftrateif there " can be no liberty ; becaufe apprehenSions may arife, left the " fame monarch qr Senate Should enact tyrannical laws, to '? execute them in a tyrannical manner." Now if it Should appear, that, as the houfe of commons has been for fome time constituted, the legislative... | |
 | John Dickinson - Pennsylvania - 1801 - 650 pages
...one man need not be afraid of another. When the power of making laws and the power of executing them, are united in the same person, or in the same body...tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner." " THE power of judging should be exercised by persons taken from the body of the people, at certain... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1808 - 534 pages
...the two powers of making the v,Want* executing the law should never meet. Montesquieu declares that " when the legislative and executive powers are united in *• the same person, o> in the same body of " magistrates, tit: re can be no liberty." * But he afterwards mmnt.iins, not... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...this subject. It was so remarkably to the point, that he would quote it. That great man observes, " When the legislative and executive powers are united...tyrannical laws to execute them in a tyrannical manner. No liberty can exist, if the judiciary power be not separated from the legislative and the executive.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Orators - 1810 - 612 pages
...this subject. It was so remarkably to the point, that he would quote it. That great man observes, " When the legislative and executive powers are united...arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tvrannical laws to execute them in a tyrannical manner. No liberty can exist, if the judiciary power... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1810 - 538 pages
...Now let us hear what that able and admirable, writer Montesquieu says upon this stale of things. " When the legislative and executive " powers are united...of magistrates, " there can be no liberty ; because ap" prehensions may arise, lest the same " monarch or senate, or the same senate, " should enact tyrannical... | |
 | Great Britain - 1810 - 540 pages
...government be so constituted " as that one man be not afraid of another. " But," says Montesquieu, " 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,"... | |
 | Great Britain - 1808 - 540 pages
...should never meet. Montesquieu de-dares that " when the legislative and executive powers are united la " the same person, or in the same body of " magistrates, there can be no liberty." * But he afterwards maintains, not ĞItOi gether consistently with this aphorism, " that the executive... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison - 1817 - 570 pages
...department. The reasons on which Montesquieu grounds his maxim, are & further demonstration of his 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 " arise lest the same monarch... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1818 - 882 pages
...department. The reasons on which Montesquieu grounds his maxim, are a further demonstration of his 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 arise lest the same tl monarch... | |
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