 | 1850 - 806 pages
...we remember rightly, that it was not carried out on a more complete plan. ' It is not,' he says, ' by the consolidation or concentration of powers, but...government is effected. Were not this great country (the United States) already divided into * Many proofs might be cited. Two must here suffice— in... | |
 | 1840 - 606 pages
...ABBEÏ-SIBEET, DCBL». 142 THE CITIZEN; A MONTHLY JOUBNAL No. III. JANUARY, 1840. VOL. I. CORPORATION REFORM. " It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers, but by their distribution, tbat good government is effected. In America, every state is divided into counties, each to take care... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1838 - 684 pages
...distinguished statesman, to whom we are much indebted for the free institutions under which we live, that it is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers, but by their distribution, th»t free Governments are to be preserved; and if this great country had not been already divided... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 526 pages
...consolidate all power in the hands of that government, in which they have so important a freehold estate. But it is not by the consolidation, or concentration of...that each might do for itself what concerns itself direcdy, and what it can so much better do than a distant authority. Every state again is divided into... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 984 pages
...consolidate all power in the hands of that government, in which they have so important a freehold estate. But it is not by the consolidation, or concentration of...made, that each might do for itself what concerns itsflf directly, and what it can so much better do than a distant authority. Every state again is divided... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 510 pages
...consolidate all power in the hands of that government, in which they have so important a freehold estate. But it is not by the consolidation, or concentration of powers, but by their distribution, that good fovernment is effected. Were not this great country already ivided into states, that division must... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 568 pages
...consolidate all power in the hands of that government, in which they have so important a freehold estate. But it is not by the consolidation or concentration of...their distribution, that good government is effected." " I repeat," he adds, '' that I do not charge the Judges with willful and ill-intentioned error ; but... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1833 - 684 pages
...distinguished statesman, to whom we are much indebted for the free institutions under which we live, that it is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers, but by their distribution, that free Governments are to be preserved; and if this great country had not been already divided into States,... | |
 | John Hohnes - 1833 - 682 pages
...distinguished statesman, to whom we are much indebted for the free institutions under which we live, that it is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers, but by their distribution, that free Governments are to be preserved; and if this great country had not been already divided into States,... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1833 - 686 pages
...distinguished statesman, to whom we are much indebted for the free institutions under which we live, that it is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers, but by their distribution, that free Governments are to be preserved; and if this great country had not been already divided into States,... | |
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But it is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers, but by their distribution, that good government is effected. Were not this great country already divided into States, that division must be made, that each might do for itself what concerns... 
