 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
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1988 - 970 strani
...and establish." Art. Ill, § 1. We know that those who framed our Constitution feared the tyranny of "accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands." The Federalist No. 47. p. 300 (H. Lodge ed. 1888) (J. Madison), and sought to guard against it by dispersing... | |
 | Clinton Rogers Woodruff - 1911 - 408 strani
...same end. Says Madison, in No. XLVII of the Federalist: " The accumulation of all powers, legislative 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." Mr. Justice... | |
 | Samuel Orace Dunn - 1912 - 316 strani
...constitution,1 said: , The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive 1 The Federalist, No. XL VII. 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. Now, this accumulation... | |
 | John Hays Gardiner - 1912 - 312 strani
...same end. Says Madison, in No. XLVII of The Federalist : "The accumulation of all powers, legislative 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." Mr. Justice... | |
 | 1900 - 1034 strani
...vested in one person or body of men the government is in fact a despotism/' And James Madison declares, "The accumulation of all powers — legislative, executive, and judiciary — in the same hands, whether one, few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the... | |
 | William Bennett Munro - 1914 - 220 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... | |
 | Lucilius Alonzo Emery - 1914 - 188 strani
...the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty than that on which this objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very... | |
 | 1915 - 536 strani
...edifice to the danger of being crushed by the disproportionate weight of other parts." He goes on to say that "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands .... may be pronounced the very definition of tyranny"; but he then undertakes an elaborate argument... | |
 | 1915 - 538 strani
...edifice to the danger of being crushed by the disproportionate weight of other parts." He goes on to say that "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands .... may be pronounced the very definition of tyranny"; but he then undertakes an elaborate argument... | |
 | ARTHUR N. HOLCOMBE - 1919 - 572 strani
...belief that tyranny became possible only when these three kinds of powers were joined in the same hands. "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive...whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective," wrote Madison, "may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."... | |
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