 | George Arthur Malcolm - Constitutional law - 1926 - 812 pages
...it is requisite the government be so constituted as 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... | |
 | Stephen Holmes - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 360 pages
...If powers are ever fused in England, political freedom will be lost. As Montesquieu remarked, "when the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty." According to Hume, too, "the government,... | |
 | Irving M. Zeitlin - Political Science - 1997 - 228 pages
...citizenry that they have nothing to fear from one another. And there can be neither tranquillity nor liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person. 'Nor,' Montesquieu continues, 'is there liberty if the power of judging is not separate from legislative... | |
 | C. G. Weeramantry - Political Science - 1997 - 468 pages
...corners of the globe. His words remain as true today as when he wrote them. Said Montesquieu: When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body, there can be no liberty, because apprehension might arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact... | |
 | William Bondy - Separation of powers - 1998 - 186 pages
...sole court of impeachment, and invested with supreme appellate jurisdiction in all other cases. " From these facts, by which Montesquieu was guided, it may...executive powers are united in the same person,' or ' if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers,' he did not mean... | |
 | John P. Kaminski, Richard Leffler - History - 1998 - 244 pages
...monarque, ou le meme Senat ne fasse des loix tyranniques, pour les executer tyranniquement." "When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same corps, there can be no liberty. Because, it may be feared, that the same monarch or senate... | |
 | Hans-Georg Gadamer - Philosophy - 1998 - 232 pages
...Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws (1748), trans. Thomas Nugent (New York: Hafner, 1949), 9.6,151. "When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty." 7. Plato, Republic, 7.5206-521^ 8. Aristotle,... | |
 | H. Roelofs - Philosophy - 2010 - 337 pages
...still form imperatives to which our modern institutions listen. They also hear these admonitions: When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistracy, there can be then no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest... | |
 | Richard J. Ellis - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 340 pages
...truth of this simple position, that to live by the will of one man, or set of men, is the pro1. "When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistracy," wrote Montesquieu, "there can be then no liberty." Nor can there be... | |
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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... 
