 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1864 - 850 pages
...which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should bo so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limita, without being effectually checked and restrained by the others. For this reason, that convention... | |
 | 1865 - 696 pages
...which "shoufd not only be founded on free principles, but in "which the powers of Government should be so divided " and balanced among several bodies of...For this reason, that Convention which passed the or" dinance of Government,. laid its foundation on this " basis, that the Legislative, Executive, and... | |
 | James Buchanan - United States - 1866 - 316 pages
...which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy,...legal limits without being effectually checked and controlled by the others.' " Should the proceedings of the Covode Committee become a precedent, both... | |
 | James Buchanan - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 316 pages
...which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy,...legal limits without being effectually checked and controlled by the others.' " Should the proceedings of the Covode Committee become a precedent, both... | |
 | Michigan. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1867 - 728 pages
...effectually checked and restrained by the others. For this reason that contention which passed tfre ordinance of government laid its foundation on this...executive and judiciary departments should be separate and Monday, distinct, so that no person should exercise the power of more than one of them at the same... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1869 - 856 pages
...without being Effectually checked/and restrained by the others. For this reason^" Lhul uu indention which passed the ordinance of government, laid its...legislative, executive, and judiciary departments should bo separate and distinct, so that no person should exercise tho powers of more than one of them at... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction - 1871 - 678 pages
...which phoulu not only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should he so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy...the others. For this reason, that Convention which parsed the ordinance of government laid its foundation on this basis, that the legislative, executive,... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Buchanan, James - 1883 - 734 pages
...which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy,...legal limits without being effectually checked and controlled by the others " II.— 17 " Should the proceedings of the Covode committee become a precedent,... | |
 | Horace Davis - Constitutional law - 1884 - 100 pages
...should not only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of the government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy...effectually checked and restrained by the others." I cannot better close this part of my subject than by quoting the incisive words of Bancroft, speaking... | |
 | Samuel Jones Tilden - 1885 - 852 pages
...not only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided among several bodies of magistracy as that no one...effectually checked and restrained by the others." In violation of these principles, Congress has stripped the President of his constitutional powers... | |
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An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend... 
