| Philippines - 1901 - 282 pages
...writing in the Federalist^ quoted with discriminating approval the statement of Montesquieu that " there can be no liberty where the legislative and...united in the same person or body of magistrates," and added his own statement that "the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judicial,... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1901 - 536 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... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1901 - 520 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... | |
| Charles Henry Butler - Constitutional law - 1902 - 704 pages
...one body of men, are inconsistent with all freedom; the celebrated Montesquieu tolls 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... | |
| Samuel Peterson, University of Texas - Municipal government - 1905 - 52 pages
...is always consulted and cited on this subject is the celebrated Montesquieu;" and Montesquieu said, "There can be no liberty where the legislative and...united in the same person, or body of magistrates." But there is another reason — one that increases in importance with the increasing complexity of... | |
| Howard Strickland Abbott - Corporation law - 1906 - 1044 pages
...might soon be an overbalance for the legislative." Montesquieu, Spirit of Laws, hk. 11, c. 6. "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... | |
| Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 506 pages
...liberty, it is requisite the government be so constituted as 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... | |
| Samuel Furman Hunt - History - 1908 - 528 pages
...possess a constitutional and effectual power of self-defense. ' ' There can not be, said Montesquieu, any liberty where the legislative and executive powers...united in the same person, or body of magistrates. The veto power is necessary to prevent legislative encroachments. In the convention which framed the... | |
| Samuel Furman Hunt - History - 1908 - 530 pages
...possess a constitutional and effectual power of self-defense." There can not be, said Montesquieu, any liberty where the legislative and executive powers...united in the same person, or body of magistrates. The veto power is necessary to prevent legislative encroachments. In the convention which framed the... | |
| James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard - Europe - 1908 - 456 pages
...liberty, it is requisite that the government be so constituted that no man need 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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