 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1887 - 536 páginas
...public security. By the third he punishes crimes, and decides the dissensions of individuals. When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body of persons there is no liberty, because tyrannical laws can be carried out tyrannically. So, too, there... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - 1888 - 676 páginas
...vote. From these facts, by which Montesquieu was guided, it may clearly be inferred that, in saying " There can be no liberty where the legislative and...separated from the legislative and executive powers," he did not mean that these depart302 THE FEDERALIST. ments ought to have no partial agency in, or no... | |
 | Historical Society of Pennsylvania - 1888 - 878 páginas
...one body of men, are inconsistent with all freedom; the celebrated Montesquieu tells us, that "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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1891 - 776 páginas
...power, the better. Give the mayor full executive power, but keep him out of legislative work. That there can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, is an axiom quoted by The Federalist from Montesquieu. It is not certain that the mayor should have... | |
 | John Ordronaux - 1891 - 716 páginas
...be justly pronounced the very definition of tyranny. " There can be no liberty," says Montesquieu, " where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates." This fundamental truth in the foundation of popular government was recognized by the builders of the... | |
 | Jabez Gridley Sutherland - 1891 - 836 páginas
...Montesquieu and other writers upon constitutional government, that constitutional liberty cannot exist where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person. Mr. Madison considers the qualified veto accorded to the president as effecting a partial distribution... | |
 | William Kingsford - 1892 - 538 páginas
...certain times of the year, and pursuant to a form and manner prescribed by law. There is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.' "' Military men belong to a profession which may be useful, but is often dangerous." — The enjoyment... | |
 | Joseph Nimmo (Jr.) - 1892 - 40 páginas
...distinguishing characteristic of free government. Said Hamilton in the Federalist : " There is no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers," and Judge Story adopts this identical language. Third. The Commission makes a labored effort to prove... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1892 - 768 páginas
...truly distinct from both the legislative and the executive. For I agree, that 'there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.' And it proves, in the last place, that as liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone,... | |
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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... 
