 The accumulation of all powers legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.  Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety ... - Stran 6871984 - 1002 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | William O. Bateman - 1876 - 416 strani
...enlightened patrons of liberty. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, judicial, and executive, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.1 Montesquieu... | |
 | United States. Electoral Commission (1877) - 1877 - 1088 strani
...keeping them separate, says: The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judicial, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may be justly pronounced the very definition of tyranny. We inquire further,... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1877 - 322 strani
...kcex>iu*g them separate, says : The accumulation of nil powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, iu the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appoint > L or elective, may bo justly pronounced the very donuitjon of tyranny. We inquire further,... | |
 | Horace Davis - 1884 - 100 strani
...statesmen of that day had a full understanding of these defects. Listen to Madison, in the Federalist: " The accumulation of all powers — Legislative, Executive...whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." After comparing... | |
 | Johns Hopkins University - 1885 - 606 strani
...statesmen of that day had a full understanding of these defects. Listen to Madison, in the Federalist: "The accumulation of all powers — Legislative, Executive...whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." After comparing... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1886 - 652 strani
...the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Were the federal... | |
 | John Alexander Jameson - 1887 - 726 strani
...history, all of whom had united in the sentiment forcibly expressed by the authors of the " Federalist," " that the accumulation of all powers, legislative,...whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may be justly pronounced the very definition of tyranny;" that, clothed... | |
 | John Freeman Baker - 1887 - 156 strani
...now be questioned. For the accumulation of all powers,—legislative, executive, and judicial—in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." VIII. CA USES... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1891 - 500 strani
...this man, or body, is the legislative, executive, and judiciary all in one. Says Mr. Madison : ' ' The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."1 Hence, as society... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1891 - 468 strani
...the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. . . . The oracle... | |
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