 | James Parker Hall - Constitutional law - 1914 - 528 pages
...might soon be an overbalance for the legislative." 1 Bl. Comm. 269. Baron Montesquieu writes: "When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or the same body of magistrates, there cart be no liberty, because apprehensions may arise, lest the same... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1915 - 1098 pages
...least of displaying and recommending it most effectually to the attention of mankind, * * *. " From these facts, by which Montesquieu was guided, it may...clearly be inferred that in saying ' there can be no levity where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates;... | |
 | Electrical engineering - 1911 - 652 pages
...will be recalled, obtained his inspiration from a study of the British Constitution. He declares that there can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or "if the power of judging be not separated form the legislative and executive powers." James Madison,... | |
 | American fiction - 1915 - 538 pages
...liberty, it is requisite the government be so constituted that 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... | |
 | American fiction - 1915 - 536 pages
...liberty, it is requisite the government be so constituted that 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... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - 1916 - 1144 pages
...least of displaying and recommending it most effectually to the attention of mankind, * * *. " from these facts, by which Montesquieu was guided, it may...clearly 'be inferred that in saying ' there can be no levity where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates;... | |
 | George A. Malcolm - Law - 1916 - 824 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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 1234 pages
...of our government instituted the new government and organized its powers, they firmly believed that "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."... | |
 | William Bennett Munro - United States - 1919 - 680 pages
...are three sorts of power : the legislative, the executive. . . . and the judiciary power. . . . When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty. . . . Again, there is no liberty, if the... | |
 | Samuel Peterson - Democracy - 1919 - 314 pages
...powers," as it is called, may be traced to Montesquieu, who declares, in The Spirit of Laws, 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." 1 Montesquieu's idea was that the legislative,... | |
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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... 
