 | United States. Congress - United States - 738 pages
...several passages from llie forty-eighth number of " Publius." "The Legislative Department is every where extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex." Again: it is said that the founders of our republics "seem never to have recollected the danger from... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 780 pages
...every free government. It has been remarked with equal force and sagacity, that the legislative power is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power iuto its impetuous vortex. The founders of our republics, wise as they were, under the influence and... | |
 | William O. Bateman - Constitutional law - 1876 - 416 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... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1880 - 670 pages
...some practical security for each against the invasion of the others, remarks that " the legislalive department is everywhere extending the sphere of its...and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex." " The founders of our republics * * * seem never to have recollected the danger from legislative usurpations,... | |
 | James Daniel Lynch - Judges - 1881 - 570 pages
...tyranny may well be apprehended, on some favorable emergency, to start up in the same quarter. But in a representative republic, where the • executive...magistracy is carefully limited, both in the extent and duration of its power, and where the legislative power is exercised by an assembly, which is inspired,... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Buchanan, James - 1883 - 736 pages
...language of Mr. Madison, speaking on this very subject, in ti.e forty-eighth number of the Ftderaliat: ' In a representative republic, where the executive...magistracy is carefully limited both in the extent and duration of its power, and where the legislative power is exercised by an assembly which is inspired... | |
 | Horace Davis - Constitutional law - 1884 - 100 pages
...violated by too great a mixture or even an actual consolidation of the different powers." * * * * " The Legislative Department is everywhere extending...and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex." * * * " The founders of our Republics seem never to have recollected the danger from Legislative usurpations,... | |
 | Johns Hopkins University - History - 1885 - 606 pages
...been violated by too great a mixture or even an actual consolidation of the different powers." . . . "The Legislative Department is everywhere extending...and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex." ... " The founders of our Republics seem never to have recollected the danger from Legislative usurpations,... | |
 | Sir Fortunatus Dwarris - Constitutional law - 1885 - 698 pages
...every free government It has been remarked with equal power and sagacity, that the legislative power is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex."a And he adds, the opinion, that the founders of our government, were so impressed with dread... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - Finance - 1886 - 652 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. 
