 | Virginia - 1905 - 506 pages
...forget right" — that even this article has afforded us no security. That legislative power which is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex, has blinked even the strong words of this amendment. That judicial power, which, according to Montesquieu... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - Comparative government - 1905 - 368 pages
...LXI. 2 The Federalist, No. LXXII. ' ' The Legislative Department is everywhere (ie in all the States) extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. . . . It is against the enterprising ambition of this department that the People ought to indulge all... | |
 | Charles Grove Haines - Courts - 1909 - 194 pages
...development toward supreme legislative power in the states. " The legislative department," he remarked, " is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity,...and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex." * The founders of our republic " seem never to have recollected the danger from legislative usurpations,... | |
 | James Boyle - Referendum - 1912 - 134 pages
...regular, deliberate and concerted measures, to :he intrigues of their executive magistrates ;" ai.d to a republic "where the executive magistracy is carefully limited both in the extent and in the duration of its power, and where the legislative power it exercised by an assembly * * * ."... | |
 | William Bennett Munro - Constitutional history - 1914 - 220 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 task... | |
 | Lucilius Alonzo Emery - Courts - 1914 - 188 pages
...strong executive to guard against it. He dedared in the "Federalist" that the legislative department was "everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex," — that the people "never seem to have recollected the danger from legislative usurpation which by... | |
 | Political science - 1916 - 932 pages
...that the people ought to indulge all their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions," said Madison. "The legislative department is everywhere extending...activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex."1 Throughout our history these fears thus expressed have found lodgment in the constitutions... | |
 | George A. Malcolm - Law - 1916 - 824 pages
...Thompson (1881) 103 US 168, 26 L. Ed. 387. Of legislative power, Madison in No. 47 of the Federalist said: "Is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity...and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex." Of judicial power, the late Mr. Justice Harlan in his perspicuous dissenting opinion in the Standard... | |
 | William Seal Carpenter - Courts - 1918 - 264 pages
...competent provision been made for maintaining in practice the separation delineated on paper.13 . . . The legislative department is everywhere extending...activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. . . . The conclusion which I am warranted in drawing is, that a mere 12 Thorpe: p. 1898. is Federalist,... | |
 | Joseph Ragland Long - United States - 1922 - 540 pages
...tendency of the legislature is to stretch its power to the utmost. In the striking words of Madison, "the legislative department is everywhere extending...and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex." But apart from its disposition to usurp power, the legislature is not qualified to determine finally... | |
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The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. 
