 | Francis Dunham Wormuth, Edwin Brown Firmage - History - 1989 - 380 pages
...(86, 120) To remedy this defect, Jefferson proposed that "the powers of governr Vil * ment should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy,...effectually checked and restrained by the others." So Jefferson called in checks and balances— not, as previously, of social classes, but of governmental... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1990 - 540 pages
...which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistry, as that no one could transcend their legal limits,...powers of more than one of them at the same time. Jefferson, "Notes on the State of Virginia," 1781-1785, ch. 13, as reprinted in "The Complete Jefferson"... | |
 | Robert A. Licht - Law - 1993 - 224 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,...effectually checked and restrained by the others. 4 From what quarter, then, was the drive toward consolidation likely to originate? Publius minced no... | |
 | Jefferson Powell - Law - 1993 - 320 pages
...despotism was not the government we fought for, but one ... in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy,...without being effectually checked and restrained by the others."52 Writing a few years later about the federal legislature, Jefferson equated a constitutional... | |
 | Milton Hindus - Criticism - 180 pages
...which should not only be founded in free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy,...effectually checked and restrained by the others. Why should such a complex mechanism be necessary? It is because government itself was regarded by the... | |
 | Anthony Arblaster - Political Science - 1994 - 142 pages
...which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies or magistracies, as that no one could transcend their legal limits,...without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.'6 What he and his colleagues were aiming at was not democracy, popular government, but limited... | |
 | William Quirk, R. Randall Bridwell - Law - 1995 - 162 pages
...should be spread around. Jefferson wrote in Notes on Virginia, that the "powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy,...effectually checked and restrained by the others." The division of governmental power was critical to the Founders; Jefferson said an "elective despotism... | |
 | Martin H. Redish - Law - 1995 - 240 pages
...principles, but in which the powers of government would be so divided and balanced among several bodies . . . that no one could transcend their legal limits, without...effectually checked and restrained by the others." Thomas Jefferson, "Notes on the State of Virginia," Query 133 (1784), in 1 Founders' Constitution,... | |
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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... 
