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 - Strona 611pod redakcją - 1810Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1831 - Liczba stron: 758
...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 - Liczba stron: 324
...these ? 218 Is this principle generally acceded to 1 And the following reasons for it are given by Montesquieu : " When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body, there can be no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should... | |
| Tracts - 1836 - Liczba stron: 506
...requisite that the government be so constituted, as that one man need not be afraid of another. •" When the legislative and executive powers are united...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 - Liczba stron: 516
...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 monarch or... | |
| Thomas George Western, Jean Louis de Lolme - 1838 - Liczba stron: 628
...liberty, it is necessary the government be so constituted as that one man be not afraid of another. When the legislative and executive powers are united...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 - Liczba stron: 492
...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,... | |
| 1845 - Liczba stron: 624
...legislator. Were it joined to the executive power, the judge might behave with violence and oppression. " When the legislative and executive powers are united...same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty. " There would be an end of everything, were the same man or the same body, whether of the nobles or... | |
| Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1876 - Liczba stron: 650
...extent of this maxim, and the reason by which it is supported is, according to Montesquieu, 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... | |
| Robert Christie - 1848 - Liczba stron: 386
...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... | |
| Thomas Gilpin - 1848 - Liczba stron: 328
...constituted that one man need not be afraid of another. " When the legislative or executive bodies are united in the same person, or in the same body...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,... | |
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