 | United States. Continental Congress - Law - 1823 - 644 pages
...one man need not be afraid of another. When the power of making laws and the power of executing them, are united in the same person, or in the same body...tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner." " The power of judging should be exercised by persons taken from the body of the people, at certain... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 1823 - 810 pages
...liberty, it is requisite the government be so constituted as one man needs not be afraid oi another. When the legislative and executive powers are united...person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can he no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1826 - 736 pages
...are united in the same person or " body," says he, " there can be no liberty, because apprehen" sions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact...tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner." Again, " Were the power of judging joined with the legislative, " the life and liberty of the subject... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - United States - 1831 - 758 pages
...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...tyrannical " laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner." Again, " Were the " power of judging joined with the legislative, the life and liberty "of the subject... | |
 | William Paley - Ethics - 1835 - 324 pages
...this principle generally acceded to 1 And the following reasons for it are given by Montesquieu : " When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body, there can be no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should... | |
 | Tracts - 1836 - 506 pages
...requisite that the government be so constituted, as that one man need not be afraid of another. •" When the legislative and executive powers are united...monarch, or senate, should enact tyrannical laws, or execute them in a tyrannical manner. "Again, there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1837 - 516 pages
...department. 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... | |
 | Thomas George Western, Jean Louis de Lolme - Constitutional law - 1838 - 628 pages
...liberty, it is necessary the government be so constituted as that one man be not afraid of another. When the legislative and executive powers are united...tyrannical laws to execute them in a tyrannical manner. (See Montesq. Sp. Laws, b. ii. c. 2. Even Mirabeau, the idol of all who aim at natural liberty, distinguished... | |
 | Constitutional history - 1842 - 492 pages
...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...monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to exe" cute them in a tyrannical manner." Again, " Were the power of " judging joined with the legislative,... | |
 | 1845 - 624 pages
...legislator. Were it joined to the executive power, the judge might behave with violence and oppression. " When the legislative and executive powers are united...same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty. " There would be an end of everything, were the same man or the same body, whether of the nobles or... | |
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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 tyrannical... 
