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...enlightened patrons of liberty. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, judicial, and executive, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many,...elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.1 Montesquieu says, that the political liberty of the citizen consists in a tranquillity of...

...keeping them separate, says: The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judicial, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many,...whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may be justly pronounced the very definition of tyranny. We inquire further, moreover, as to the startling...

...separate, says : The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judicial, in the same bands, 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, moreover, as to the startling...

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...questioned. For the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judicial, in the same bands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. (10) JOHN F. BAKER. (6) Southern Law Review for April-May, 1878. (7) Elliott's Debates, vol. 5, p....

...statesmen of that day had a full understanding of these defects. Listen to Madison, in the Federalist: " The accumulation of all powers — Legislative, Executive...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." After comparing at length the provisions of these State Constitutions, he says : " They carry strong...

...statesmen of that day had a full understanding of these defects. Listen to Madison, in the Federalist: "The accumulation of all powers — Legislative, Executive...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." After comparing at length the provisions of these State Constitutions, he says : " They carry strong...

...the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Were the federal Constitution, therefore, really chargeable with the accumulation of power, or with...

..." The accumulation of all powers, Legislative, Executive and .Iudiciary, in the same hands, whether one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. (Federalist, No. 47.) I. The Legislative Department, thus established and separated, in our free, constitutional...