 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.  Scrap Book on Law and Politics, Men and Times - Stran 132avtor: George Robertson - 1855 - 404 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Thomas Francis Bayard - 1896 - 52 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 or a few or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the... | |
 | Homer Horatio Seerley, Leonard Woods Parish - 1897 - 414 strani
...persons; while free governments tend to division and separation of powers. In the words of Mr. Madison: "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." 1 1 The Federalist, No. 47. CHAPTER XXVI. THE COMPOSITION OF CONGRESS AND THE ELECTION OF ITS MEMBERS.... | |
 | Sanford Niles - 1897 - 320 strani
...persons; while free governments tend to division and separation of powers. In the words of 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 i The Federalist,... | |
 | Homer Horatio Seerley, Leonard Woods Parish - 1897 - 420 strani
...persons; while free governments tend to division and separation of powers. In the words of 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 1 The Federalist,... | |
 | James Schouler - 1897 - 350 strani
...executive, and judiciary, in the same hands," says the "Federalist," in that momentous canvass of 1788, " whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may be justly pronounced the very definition of a tyranny."1 But the accumulation of Federal power under... | |
 | James Schouler - 1897 - 352 strani
...sovereignties had already bred a general discontent with the tyrannous tendencies of the Legislature. "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands," says the "Federalist," in that momentous canvass of 1788, " whether of one, a few, or many, and whether... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale, M. L. Hinsdale - 1899 - 382 strani
...persons; while free governments tend to division and separation of powers. In the words of Mr. Madison: " The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."1 1 The Federalist, No. 47. CHAPTER XXX THE COMPOSITION OF CONGRESS AND THE ELECTION OF ITS... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1901 - 536 strani
...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 this accumulation of power, or with... | |
 | SIR GEORGE CORNEWALL LEWIS, BART. - 1901 - 448 strani
...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. The oracle who is always consulted and cited on this subject is the celebrated Montesquieu.» — «... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1901 - 520 strani
...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 this accumulation of power, or with... | |
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