...political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value," James Madison contended, "than that . . . the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny" ( Th e Federalist, No. 47 ). *New York...

...well impel us to give the President some additional authority, we must still guard cautiously against the "accumulation of all powers — legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands." We must guard carefully our power of the purse as one of the Congress' few means for controlling the...

...majority" from assembling all the powers of the government, thus enabling it to oppress the minority. "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny," wrote Madison. 1 In his celebrated...

...danger they most feared seems clear enough: legislative tyranny. The Danger of Legislative Tyranny "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands," wrote Publius (the pseudonym employed by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay), "whether of one, a few, or many,...

...for Separation In Federalist 47 we find one of the most frequently quoted passages of The Federalist: "No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic...authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty than that . . . the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether...

...1789. And Madison's whole point was that too much power in any one place in government was dangerous. "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands," he wrote, "whether of one, a few or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may...

...principle was any less important to the federal framers. Madison said of it, in Federalist No. 47, that "no political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic...authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty." (ibid.: 881) While serving as an appellate judge, Scalia sat on the three-judge district court panel...

...about one of the Constitution's bedrock principles. As James Madison tells us in Federalist No. 47, "No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic...authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty," than the truth underlying the separation of powers. Today, I want to talk about two major separation-of-powers...

...reprobation of the system."42 An opponent of majority rule, Madison extolled the separation principle: "No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic...the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty . . . ,"43 The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands,...

...against the oppression of its rulers." This, the Madisonians argue, can be done only if power is divided. "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."...