 | Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer - Political Science - 2005 - 444 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 task... | |
 | John A. Marini, Ken Masugi - Political Science - 2005 - 406 pages
...are necessary for fortifying "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."20 Thus, legislative supremacy will result unless the executive and judicial branches can be... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 2005 - 630 pages
...emergency, to (tart up in the fame quarter. Butin a reprefentative republic, where the executive magiftracy is carefully limited both in the extent and the duration of its power; and where the legiflative power is ex«rcifed by an affembly, which: is inipired by a fuppofed influence over the... | |
 | Harold J Krent - Law - 2005 - 288 pages
...Madison later summarized in the Federalist Papers about the period after the Declaration of Independence, "The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power in its impetuous vortex."18 At the same time, the Continental Congress kept most executive-type powers... | |
 | James Brian Staab - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 416 pages
...republican systems, Madison contended that "the legislative authority necessarily predominates" and "is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex."23 Congress, with its more extensive and ill-defined powers, "can, with the greater facility,... | |
 | VD Mahajan - Political Science - 2006 - 936 pages
...the subject." Madison further says: "The legislative department is everywhere <»y<» t UIUHUI tnnury extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex They seem never to have recollected the danger from legislative usurpation which by assembling all... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - History - 2007 - 1236 pages
...feeble, against the more powerful members of the government. The legislative department is every where and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their autho The founders of our republics have so much merit for the wisdom which they have displayed, that no... | |
 | Gene Healy - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 386 pages
...threats to liberty could therefore be expected to come from the executive. In the American Constitution, "where the executive magistracy is carefully limited,...both in the extent and the duration of its power," legislative encroachment was more to be feared.47 "In America, the Law Is King" Today's Unitarians... | |
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The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. 
