 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
 | Philippines - 1901 - 282 pages
...quoted with discriminating approval the statement of Montesquieu that " there can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body of magistrates," and added his own statement that "the accumulation of all powers, legislative,... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1901 - 520 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... | |
 | Charles Henry Butler - Constitutional law - 1902 - 704 pages
...one body of men, are inconsistent with all freedom; the celebrated Montesquieu tolls us, that ' when the legislative and executive powers are united in...body of magistrates, there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch m- senutr should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them... | |
 | Charles Augustus Hanna - Scots-Irish - 1902 - 648 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... | |
 | Kiyoshi Karl Kawakami - Japan - 1903 - 258 pages
...government. " When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person," says Montesuquieu, " or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehension may arise, lest the same monarch or senate!should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them... | |
 | United States. Continental Congress - Constitutional history - 1904 - 212 pages
...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 of Magistrates, there can be no liberty,- because apprehensions may arise, lest the same Monarch or Senate, should enact tyrannical laws, to execute... | |
 | Stephen Leacock - Political science - 1905 - 430 pages
...on subsequent political institutions. " If the legislative and executive power," says Montesquieu, " are united in the same person or in the same body of persons, there is no liberty, because of the danger that the same monarch or the same senate may make... | |
 | Samuel Peterson, University of Texas - Municipal government - 1905 - 52 pages
...on this subject is the celebrated Montesquieu;" and Montesquieu said, "There can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates." But there is another reason — one that increases in importance with the increasing... | |
 | Howard Strickland Abbott - Corporation law - 1906 - 1044 pages
...might soon be an overbalance for the legislative." Montesquieu, Spirit of Laws, hk. 11, c. 6. "When the legislative and executive powers are united in...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... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 506 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...of magistrates, there can be no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them... | |
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