 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1808 - 534 pages
...the two powers of making the v,Want* executing the law should never meet. Montesquieu declares that " when the legislative and executive powers are united in *• the same person, o> in the same body of " magistrates, tit: re can be no liberty." * But he afterwards mmnt.iins, not... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...this subject. It was so remarkably to the point, that he would quote it. That great man observes, " 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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1810 - 538 pages
...government be so constituted " as that one man be not afraid of another. " But," says Montesquieu, " 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,"... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1810 - 538 pages
...Now let us hear what that able and admirable, writer Montesquieu says upon this stale of things. " 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 ap" prehensions may arise, lest... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1817 - 570 pages
...magistracy; and another, on the impeachment of a third, can try and condemn all the subordinate officers in the executive department. The reasons on which Montesquieu grounds his maxim, are & further demonstration of his meaning. " When the legislative " and executive powers are united in... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1818 - 882 pages
...magistracy ; and another, on the impeachment of a third, can try and condemn all the subordinate officers in the executive department. The reasons on which Montesquieu...liberty, because apprehensions may arise lest the same tl monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to " execute them in a tyrannical manner." Again,... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 1823 - 810 pages
...liberty, it is requisite the government be so constituted as one man needs not be afraid oi another. When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can he no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise, lest the... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1826 - 736 pages
...magistracy ; and another, on the impeachment of a third, can try and condemn all the subordinate officers in the executive department. The reasons on which Montesquieu...a further demonstration of his meaning. " When the legisla" tive and executive powers are united in the same person or " body," says he, " there can be... | |
 | William Paley - Ethics - 1835 - 324 pages
...this principle generally acceded to 1 And the following reasons for it are given by Montesquieu : " When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body, there can be no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact... | |
 | Tracts - 1836 - 506 pages
...requisite that the government be so constituted, as that one man need not be afraid of another. •" 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... | |
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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... 
