 | Levi Woodbury - Electronic books - 1852 - 656 pages
...aggrandizement of the legislature at the expense of the other departments;" or, in the words of the first, " The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all forces into its impetuous vortex." Even Mr. Jefferson denounced an unchecked legislature, or a concentration... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention, Harvey Fowler - Constitutional conventions - 1853 - 814 pages
...exercise any power over it, except that of a judicial character. Hamilton, in the Federalist, says : " The legislative department is everywhere extending...and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex." Now, Sir, what is the use of applying any governing power to these institutions, except to restrain... | |
 | Massachusetts constitutional convention, 1853 - 1853 - 814 pages
...exercise any power over it, except that of a judicial character. Hamilton, in the Federalist, says : " The legislative department is everywhere extending...and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex." Now, Sir, what is the use of applying any governing power to these institutions, except to restrain... | |
 | George Bowyer - Jurisprudence - 1854 - 424 pages
...government. But experience has shown the insufficiency of this method. " And," continues the same writer, " the legislative department is everywhere extending...and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex." i They seem not to have sufficiently considered, that though in a government where numerous and extensive... | |
 | George Robertson - Kentucky - 1855 - 422 pages
...the more feeblo against the more powerful members of the government. The legislative department i» everywhere extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its "mpircofs VOHTEX." In the same number he says, that "in a representative republic, where the executive... | |
 | George Robertson - Kentucky - 1855 - 422 pages
...feeble against the more powerful members of the government. The legislative department is every where extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its "IMPETUOUS VOKTEX." In the same number he says, that "in a representative republic, where the executive magistracy... | |
 | George Robertson - Kentucky - 1855 - 422 pages
...feeble against the more powerful members of the government. The legislative department- is every where extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its "ua-Eirous VOKTEX." In the same number he say;, that "in a representative republic, where the executive... | |
 | Henry Barton Dawson - Constitutional law - 1863 - 770 pages
...indispensably necessary for the more feeble, against the more powerful, members of the Government. The Legislative department is everywhere extending...activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. The founders of our republics have so much merit for the wisdom which they have displayed, that no... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1864 - 850 pages
...is indispensably necessary for the more feeble, against the more powerful members of the government. The legislative department is everywhere extending...activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. The founders of our republics have so much merit for the wisdom which they have displayed, that no... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1864 - 776 pages
...indispensably necessary for the more feeble, against the more powerful, members of the Government. The Legislative department is everywhere extending...activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. The founders of our republics have so much merit for the wisdom which they have displayed, that no... | |
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The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. 
