Autobiography: With Reports and DocumentsPress of J. J. Little, 1901 - 313 strani |
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Stran 163 - The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society, and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.
Stran 162 - But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others.
Stran 91 - An act laying out public places and parks and parkways in the twenty-third and twenty-fourth wards of the city of New York...
Stran 162 - In the government of this Commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them: the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them: the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them : to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.
Stran 163 - It proves incontestably, that the judiciary is beyond comparison the weakest of the three departments of power*; that it can never attack with success either of the other two ; and that all possible care is requisite to enable it to defend itself against their attacks.
Stran 91 - No county containing a city of over one hundred thousand inhabitants, or any such city, shall be allowed to become indebted for any purpose or in any manner to an amount which, including existing indebtedness, shall exceed ten per centum of the assessed valuation of the real estate of such county or city subject to taxation, as it appeared by the assessment-rolls of said county or city on the last assessment for state or county taxes prior to the incurring of such indebtedness...
Stran 207 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Stran 161 - One of the principal objections inculcated by the more respectable adversaries to the Constitution is its supposed violation of the political maxim— that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments ought to be separate and distinct.
Stran 149 - ... he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same...
Stran 85 - call evil good, and good evil ; put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.