 No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded; The accumulation of all powers Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary, in...  Selections from the Federalist - Page 184edited by - 1914 - 202 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Margulies - Political Science - 2007 - 354 pages
...to the Constitution, to the country, and to the rule of law. For centuries we have understood that " [t]he accumulation of all powers legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." " The president himself captured what... | |
 | Joseph Margulies - Political Science - 2006 - 337 pages
...Constitution, to the country, and to the rule of law. For centuries we have understood that " [t] he accumulation of all powers legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." 17 The president himself captured what... | |
 | David Lay Williams - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 356 pages
...associates tyranny with the concentration of all governmental powers into a small group of people: "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny" (Madison, Hamilton, and Jay [1789] 1999,... | |
 | Edward A. Purcell - Political Science - 2007 - 311 pages
...[hereafter, "Farrand, Records"}. 11. Federalist, No. 28, at 174. 12. Federalist, No. 51, at 336. 13. The "accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands" was "the very definition of tyranny." Federalist, No. 47, at 313. 14. Federalist, No. 48, at 321. 15.... | |
 | Vincent Ostrom - Political Science - 2008 - 320 pages
...great "departments" of government — the legislative, the executive, and the judicial. To Madison, "[T]he accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny" (Federalist 47, par. 2). Those three... | |
 | Gene Healy - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 386 pages
...innate lust for power, though, how could such constraints be maintained? How could Americans prevent the "accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands," a situation Madison pronounced "the very definition of tyranny"?44 The answer was to design a constitution... | |
 | Patrick M. Garry - Law - 2010 - 202 pages
...separation of powers doctrine reflects the framers' fear of centralized power.46 As James Madison wrote, "the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, 1961) (referencing the distinction between free governments and republican governments). 40. Bradford... | |
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