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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... "
The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life ... - Page 368
by John Adams - 1851
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The Spirit of Laws, Volume 1

Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 1750 - 538 pages
...be then no liberty ; becaufc apprehenfions may arife, left the fame monarch or fenate mould enadl: tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner....there is no liberty, if the power of judging . be not feparated from the legiflative and executive powers. Were it joined with the legiflative, the life...
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Political Register and Impartial Review of New Books: V. 1-5, Volume 2

1768 - 478 pages
...magiftrateif there " can be no liberty ; becaufe apprehenSions may arife, left the " fame monarch qr Senate Should enact tyrannical laws, to '? execute them in a tyrannical manner." Now if it Should appear, that, as the houfe of commons has been for fome time constituted, the legislative...
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The Spirit of Laws: Translated from the French of M. de Secondat, Baron de ...

Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1773 - 532 pages
...there can be no liberty; becaufe apprehenfions may arile, left the fame monarch or fenate mould enaft tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. . Again, there is no liberty, if the judiciary power be not feparated from the legiflative and executive. Were it joined with the legiflative,...
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An historical miscellany. The third edition

Historical miscellany - 1774 - 352 pages
...can be no liberty ; becaufe apprehenfions may arife, left the fame monarch or fen.ite fhould enaQ: tyrannical laws, to execute them in a, tyrannical...there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not feparated from the legiflative and executive powers. Were it joined with the legiflative, the life...
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The Parliamentary Register: Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of ...

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1783 - 304 pages
...there can be no liberty ; bccaufe apprehenfions may arife, left the fame monarch or fenate fhould enaft tyrannical laws^ to execute them in a tyrannical manner. " Again, there is no liberty, if the judiciary power be not feparated from the legiflative and executive. Were it joined with the legiflative,...
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The American museum, or, Repository of ancient and modern fugitive ..., Volume 2

Mathew Carey - 1789 - 632 pages
...there «an be no liberty, becaufe apprehenISons may arife, led the fame monarch or fenate mould enaft tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner." Again, " there is no liberty, if the powerof judging be not feparated from the legiflative and executive powers. Were it joined with the...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ...

Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...there can be no liberty; becaufe apprehenfions may arift, left the fame monarch or fenateihouldenaft tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner....there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not feparated from the legiilative and executive powers. Were it joined with the legiilative, the life...
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The Prose epitome; or, Extracts, elegant, instructive, and entertaining ...

Conduct of life - 1792 - 494 pages
...manner. Again, ,therc is no liberty, if the power of judging tyc not fcparatcd from the legiflativc and executive powers. Were it joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the fubjcft would^bp cxpofed to arbitrary controul ; for the judge would 'be then the legiflafor. Were...
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A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America ...

John Adams - Constitutional history - 1797 - 448 pages
...liberty; becaufe apprehenfions may arife, left the fame monarch or fenate, or the fame fen ate fliould enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical...there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not feparated from the legiftative and executive powers : were it joined with the legiflative, the life...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose ..., Volume 1

English literature - 1797 - 680 pages
...appreherfions шау arife, left the famemonarch or fenate fliodd cn.id tyrannical laws, to execute them ш a tyrannical manner. Again, there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not feparated from the ltgiilative and executive powers. Were it joined with the legiilative, the life...
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