 | John Steele - North Carolina - 1924 - 484 pages
...people of the United States for their adoption declared that "the legislative department is every where extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous VORTEX" — and that "it is against the enterprizing ambition of this department, that the people ought to... | |
 | John Steele - North Carolina - 1924 - 480 pages
...people of the United States for their adoption declared that "the legislative department is every where extending the sphere of its activity; and drawing all power into its impetuous VORTEX"—and that "it is against the enterprizing ambition of this department, that the people ought... | |
 | Rodney Loomer Mott - Local government - 1925 - 420 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... | |
 | Charles Warren - Constitutional history - 1925 - 328 pages
...demonstrated that their checks are insufficient;" and in The Federalist, No. 48, Feb. 1, 1788, Madison wrote: "The Legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and draining all power into its impetuous vortex. ... I have appealed to experience for the truth of what... | |
 | Raymond Garfield Gettell - Political science - 1928 - 652 pages
...partly because it is difficult to set precise constitutional limits to their powers. Madison stated that "the legislative department is everywhere extending...activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. ' ' " Frequent references were made to the corruption and incapacity of the state legislatures. It... | |
 | American essays - 1882 - 1014 pages
...the legislative at the expense of the other departments." Madison wrote in the Federalist, No. 48, " The legislative department is everywhere extending...sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into ite tempestuous vortex." Jefferson also wrote, in the Notes on the State of Virginia, " The executive... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Congressional Operations - 1973 - 608 pages
...that the Framers, aware of these abuses, were determined to guard against them. Madison stated that the "legislative department is everywhere extending...and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex." 7 And Jefferson looked on the "tyranny of the legislatures" as "the most formidable dread at present,... | |
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The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. 
