 | Ohio State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1900 - 240 pages
...conservation of liberty. Touching the necessity for disuniting the great powers, Montesquieu said : " 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... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - Presidents - 1882 - 842 pages
...three great powers of government. A generation before their epoch, Montesquieu had said : — " 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... | |
 | Alabama State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1912 - 356 pages
...limitations and the establishment of the capacity for absolutism. In the language of Montesquieu : "When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may arise, lest the same... | |
 | Michigan legislative association - 1886 - 256 pages
...Rights of Massachusetts impressively declares, "that there may be a government of lawn and not of men." "There can be no liberty where the Legislative and...Executive powers are united in the same person or body of Magistracy," or "if the power of judging be not separated from the Legislative and Executive powers."... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 844 pages
...the early friends and founders of our free institutions. There can be no liberty, says Montesquieu, where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body of magistracy; or if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - Finance - 1886 - 652 pages
...The reasons on which Montesquieu grounds his maxim are a further demonstration of his meaning. " When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body," says he, " there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1887 - 536 pages
...public security. By the third he punishes crimes, and decides the dissensions of individuals. When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body of persons there is no liberty, because tyrannical laws can be carried out tyrannically. So, too, there... | |
 | Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Constitutional history - 1888 - 878 pages
...one body of men, are inconsistent with all freedom; the celebrated Montesquieu tells us, that "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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1891 - 776 pages
...power, the better. Give the mayor full executive power, but keep him out of legislative work. That there can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, is an axiom quoted by The Federalist from Montesquieu. It is not certain that the mayor should have... | |
 | John Ordronaux - Constitutional law - 1891 - 716 pages
...be justly pronounced the very definition of tyranny. " There can be no liberty," says Montesquieu, " where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates." This fundamental truth in the foundation of popular government was recognized by the builders of 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... 
