...efficiency of state government could be obstructed. Items 5 and 6 are based on the following passage. "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands... is the very definition of tyranny" — From Federalist 47 by James Madison 5. The fear expressed by...

...who drafted the Constitution and who later became the fourth President of the United States, wrote: "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands... may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." (19) Politicians and Governments must realize...

...of a single branch is a threat to liberty. The Federalist states the axiom in these explicit terms: "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands. . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."4 The Supreme Court has historically taken...

...greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty. . . . The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.2 Many of the framers, including Alexander...

...Constitution, to the country, and to the rule of law. For centuries we have understood that " [t] he accumulation of all powers legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." 17 The president himself captured what...

...volunteers for a war Congress had not yet agreed to fund). In Federalist 47 James Madison had written that "the accumulation of all powers, legislative,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." Lincoln used the arbitrary power he had thus granted himself to muzzle opposition, whether in the form...

...central threat that the Founders sought to nullify in the Constitution. In the words of James Madison, "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." What would Benjamin Franklin think of President Bush's assertion that he has the inherent power, even...

...vital to freedom. Indeed, Madison called the doctrine "a first principle of free government," and wrote that "[t]he accumulation of all powers, legislative,...elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."177 For, as Montesquieu explained, "When the legislative and executive powers are united in...

...government, but he was not quite on point as to the meaning of the danger. He said in The Federalist, No. 47: "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.... [W]here the whole power of one department is exercised by the same hands which possess the whole power...

...mechanisms) a separation of powers among the three branches of the national government. As Madison put it, "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."74 But, of course, the separation neither can nor should be total: "[U]nless these departments...