| Charles Bishop Goodrich - United States - 1853 - 364 pages
...end that the rights of every individual, his life, liberty, property, and character may be preserved. The legislative department shall never exercise the...legislative and executive powers, or either of them ; so that the government shall be a government of laws, and not of men. These principles constitute... | |
| Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 pages
...well ; and that they should have honorable salaries, ascertained and established by standing laws. 30. In the government of this commonwealth, the legislative...and executive powers, or either of them : to the end that it may be a government of laws, and not of men. PART II. • Frame of Government. The people inhabiting... | |
| George Bowyer - Jurisprudence - 1854 - 424 pages
...the state constitutions. In the Constitution of Massachusetts, for example, it is declared, that 1 in the government of this commonwealth the legislative...and executive powers, or either of them ; to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.' Other declarations of a similar character are... | |
| Constitutions, State - 1855 - 576 pages
...; and that they should have honourable salaries, ascertained and established by standing laws. 30. In the government of this commonwealth, the legislative...and executive powers, or either of them : to the end that it may bo a government of laws, and not of men. PART H. Frame of Government. The people inhabiting... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 816 pages
...commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or cither of them ; the executive shall never exercise the legislative...the legislative and executive powers, or either of them;—to the end that it may be a government of laws, and not of men ;" thus providing that the three... | |
| Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 pages
...of the others, except in the cases herein expressly directed and permitted." So in Massachusetts,* " In the government of this commonwealth, the legislative...and executive powers, or either of them ; to the end that it may be a government of laws, and not of men." So in Maryland,f "The legislative, executive,... | |
| Constitutional law - 1857 - 504 pages
...this fundamental article of liberty. It declares, -" that the legislative department shall nev~ "er exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either...legislative and executive powers, or either of them." This declaration corresponds precisely with the doctrine of Montesquieu, as it has been explained,... | |
| Massachusetts - Law - 1859 - 568 pages
...exercise the executive and legMatin and judicial powers, or either of them: the executive shall dep"tm never exercise the legislative and judicial powers,...them : to the end it may be a government of laws, and uot of men. PART THE SECOND. The Frame of Government. The people, inhabiting the territory formerly... | |
| Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1862 - 660 pages
...no way impairs. Commonwealth v. A tit he*. Article 30 of the Declaration of Rights provides that, " in the government of this commonwealth, the legislative...shall never exercise the legislative and executive powersj or either of them ; to the enl it may be a government of laws and not of men." The force of... | |
| Reverdy Johnson - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1863 - 764 pages
...same venerable Constitution, some of which, I trust, will remain, with or without its rust, says : " In the government of this Commonwealth the legislative...exercise the legislative and executive powers, or cither of them, to the end it may be a government of laies and not of men." I have heard arguments... | |
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