...be exercised by government. "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and j'udicial, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny," said Madison. To avoid such a situation conscious effort was made so to draft fundamental laws that...

...discussing the separation of powers in the Federal Constitution remarked with equal point and brevity: "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. ' ' Of the twelve Commonwealths which had adopted Constitutions prior to 1787, six had inserted in...

...force." If this all -eclipsing power or force is concentrated in one head or department, we have tyranny. "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny:'" (1) Revised edition, page 572. (2) The Federalist. No. XLVII. CENTRAL LAW JOURNAL "The true liberty...

...trying the causes of individuals." And The Federalist haa with equal point and brevity remarked, that "the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive...whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may be justly pronounced the very definition of tyranny." The general reasoning by which the maxim is supported,...

...rights and liberties of the people. Madison (sometimes called the father of the Constitution) said: 'The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.' And Jefferson said that 'the concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic...

...the 45th Federalist, Madison said: "No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection (viz., that the constitution of 1788 united various sorts of powers in the same person) is founded;...

...(289 US 530, 531, 67 L. ed. 1361, 1362, 53 S. Ct. 740)." In the Federal Papers, James Madison said — "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." In his Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu said — "Again, there is no liberty, if the power of judging...

...(289 US 530, 531, 67 L. ed. 1361, 1362, 53 S. Ct. 740)." In the Federal Papers, James Madison said — In his Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu said — "Again, there is no liberty, if the power of judging...

...constitution was in process of adoption, the Federalist (Papers Nos. 47-51, pp. 299-327, 300), said : The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tryanny. In S. 5 you have the Secretary and his advisory committees acting as a legislative and judicial...

...than [the separation of powers]. The accumulation of all powers legislative, executive, and judicial in the same hands — whether of one, a few, or many...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. (No. 47) THE ORACLE WHO is always consulted and cited on this subject [separation of powers] is the...