 | Johns Hopkins University - History - 1885 - 606 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...transcend their legal limits without being effectually cheeked and restrained by the others." I cannot better close this part of my subject than by quoting... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1889 - 638 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,...powers of more than one of them at the same time. Rut no barrier was provided between '. these several powers. The judiciary and the executive members... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 858 pages
...which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, aa that no one could transcend their legal limits without...effectually checked and restrained by the others." Yet Virginia lived voluntarily nnder this constitution more than fifty years (see 2 Titkin's HUt. 298,... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 852 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, as that no one could transcend their legal hmits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others." Yet Virginia lived voluntarily... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1894 - 634 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,...convention, which passed the ordinance of government, [215] laid its foundation on this basis, that the legislative, executive and judiciary departments... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 558 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,...convention, which passed the ordinance of government, [215] laid its foundation on this basis, that the legislative, executive and judiciary departments... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 584 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...on this basis, that the legislative, executive, and judicial departments should be separate and distinct, so that no person should exercise the powers... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 818 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...and restrained by the others. For this reason that i convention which passed the ordinance of government laid its foundation on this basis, that the legislative,... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 540 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 the... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1897 - 858 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 the... | |
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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... 
