 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...  Cobbett's Weekly Political Register - Page 6231810Full view - About this book
 | James Bradley Thayer - Constitutional law - 1894 - 470 pages
...Montesquien was gnided, it may clearly he inferred that, in saying " There can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates," or, "if the power of judging he not separated from the legislative and executive... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison - United States - 1894 - 980 pages
...Montesquieu was guided, it may clearly be inferred, that in saying, " there can be no liberty, where the Legislative and Executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates ;" or, " if the power of judging be not separated from the Legislative and Executive... | |
 | George A. Sanders - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1895 - 416 pages
...directly, in compliance with a somewhat popular clamor. Montesquieu says: "There can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body of magistrates." The House of Representatives and the President could easily unite the legislative... | |
 | James L. Wolcott - 1896 - 82 pages
...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 taine monarch... | |
 | Thomas Francis Bayard - Free enterprise - 1896 - 52 pages
...departments of power should be separate and distinct." "There can be no liberty," said Montesquieu, "where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body of magistrates." 21 remarkable page in the history of civilized mankind. The echoes of the savage... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 932 pages
...three sorts of powers: The executive, the legislative, and the judicial. When the legislative and the executive powers are united in the same person, or...same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty. Again, there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Evolution - 1899 - 472 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...body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same eThe natural end of a state that has f The greater part of the... | |
 | Social sciences - 1900 - 400 pages
...government. " When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person," says Montesquieu, " 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... | |
 | Emlin McClain - Constitutional law - 1900 - 1126 pages
...indeed, cause to mourn. It was the celebrated maxim of Montesquieu, that " there can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body of magistrates ; " or, " if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1901 - 536 pages
...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... | |
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