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
| 1901 - 282 strani
...added his own statement that "the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judicial, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." * It is undoubtedly true that the doctrine of the separation of the various powers was a growth in... | |
| John Rose Ficklen - 1901 - 396 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, selt-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." 1 1 The Federalist,... | |
| Frank Hunt Hurd Roberts - 1902 - 250 strani
...wrote in the Federalist, " The accumulation of all powers legislative, executive, and judiciary in the hands, whether of one, a few, or many and whether...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny," which is the perversion of monarchy. While France has an elective presidency, "the citizens considered... | |
| Frank H. H. Roberts - 1902 - 244 strani
...wrote in the Federalist, " The accumulation of all powers legislative, executive, and judiciary in the hands, whether of one, a few, or many and whether...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny," which is the perversion of monarchy. While France has an elective presidency, " the citizens considered... | |
| Stephen Mallory White - 1903 - 346 strani
...with 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... | |
| 1919 - 552 strani
...afterwards President of the United States, says: "No political truth is of greater intrinsic value * * * The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." Such in brief are the ideals that our fathers embodied in our frame of government, and such are the... | |
| Alexander Hamilton - 1904 - 450 strani
...objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, irithe same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Were the federal Constitution, therefore, really chargeable with the accumulation of power, or with... | |
| Alexander Hamilton - 1904 - 516 strani
...all power, legislative, executive, and judicial, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many ; whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.1 Neither of the three departments ought to possess directly or indirectly an overruling influence... | |
| Philippines. Executive Bureau - 1906 - 664 strani
...is unnecessary. But should some authority be required, we would cite those famous words of Madison : "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." (The Federalist, Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1898, p. 319.) It is just to acknowledge that in spite... | |
| 1906 - 774 strani
...in realizing it we approach the condition which Alexander Hamilton conceived in the following words: "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... | |
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