...rights and liberties of the people. Madison (sometimes called the father of the Constitution) said: '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.' And Jefferson...

...(viz., that the constitution of 1788 united various sorts of powers in the same person) is founded; the accumulation of all powers legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one or few or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very...

...constitution was in process of adoption, the Federalist (Papers Nos. 47-51, pp. 299-327, 300), said : The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...whether of one. a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tryanny. In S. 5 you have...

...(289 US 530, 531, 67 L. ed. 1361, 1362, 53 S. Ct. 740)." In the Federal Papers, James Madison said — "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." In his Spirit...

...(289 US 530, 531, 67 L. ed. 1361, 1362, 53 S. Ct. 740)." In the Federal Papers, James Madison said — "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." In his Spirit...

...US Constitution as a meaningful limitation on the scope of federal authority.10 Separation of Powers "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands," James Madison intoned in Federalist 47, "may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.""...

...help preserve national liberty.50 "No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value" than that the "accumulation of all powers, legislative,...whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny," Madison observed."...

...Number 51s checks and balances. IE NUMBER 51: INSTITUTIONALIZING SEPARATION OF POWERS From Number 47: "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." Par. I : With...

...understood the dangers of unlimited majority rule and of any other unlimited form of government as well. "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 Federalist...

...with 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, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Were the federal...