..." The accumulation of all powers, Legislative, Executive and .Iudiciary, in the same hands, whether one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. (Federalist, No. 47.) I. The Legislative Department, thus established and separated, in our free, constitutional...

...of whom had united in the sentiment forcibly expressed by the authors of the " Federalist," " that the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may be justly pronounced the very definition of tyranny;" that, clothed with such powers, the Convention...

...now be questioned. For the accumulation of all powers,—legislative, executive, and judicial—in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." VIII. CA USES WHICH MA Y ENDANGER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. When the Federal Constitution was adopted,...

...the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. . . . The oracle who is always consulted and cited on this subject is the celebrated Montesquieu.'...

...this man, or body, is the legislative, executive, and judiciary all in one. Says Mr. Madison : ' ' The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."1 Hence, as society has advanced and governments improved, there has been a strong tendency...

...one man or of one set of men. The result of such a state of things Mr. Madison has thus described : " The accumulation of all powers, Legislative, Executive,...in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elected, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."2...

...the danger of being crushed by the disproportionate weight of other parts." He goes on to say that "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands .... may be pronounced the very definition of tyranny"; but he then undertakes an elaborate argument...

...the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, -than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers Legislative, Executive,...hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly IKJ pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Were the Federal Constitution, therefore, really chargeable...

...and so declares what it is. In this way liberty is secured. A great American statesman one said : ' ' The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elected, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny....

...accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands, whether of one or a few or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. * * The preservation of liberty requires that the three great departments of power should be separate...