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... Cobbett's Political Register - Seite 611herausgegeben von - 1810Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| John Dickinson - 1801 - 650 Seiten
...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 Hazlitt - 1809 - 608 Seiten
...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 - 1810 - 612 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1810 - 538 Seiten
...from the " opinion each person has of his safety. " In order to have this Liberty, it is re" quisite the government be so constituted " as that one man...executive powers are "united in the same person, or in'the " same body of magistrates, there can be " no Liberty'; because apprehensions " may arise,"... | |
| 1808 - 542 Seiten
...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 «ItOi gether consistently with this aphorism, " that the executive... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1817 - 570 Seiten
...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 - 1818 - 882 Seiten
...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... | |
| United States. Continental Congress - 1823 - 644 Seiten
...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... | |
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