 The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.  Scrap Book on Law and Politics, Men and Times - Page 132by George Robertson - 1855 - 404 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1896 - 848 pages
...authorhy of more enlightened [30] patrons of liberty, than that on which this objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one or a few [30] or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced... | |
 | Homer Horatio Seerley, Leonard Woods Parish - Iowa - 1897 - 414 pages
...persons; while free governments tend to division and separation of powers. In the words of Mr. Madison: "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." 1 1 The Federalist, No. 47. CHAPTER XXVI. THE COMPOSITION OF CONGRESS AND THE ELECTION OF ITS MEMBERS.... | |
 | Homer Horatio Seerley, Leonard Woods Parish - Iowa - 1897 - 420 pages
...persons; while free governments tend to division and separation of powers. In the words of Mr. Madison: " The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." 1 1 The Federalist,... | |
 | Sanford Niles - Minnesota - 1897 - 320 pages
...persons; while free governments tend to division and separation of powers. In the words of Mr. Madison: "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."1 i The Federalist,... | |
 | James Schouler - Constitutional history - 1897 - 350 pages
...executive, and judiciary, in the same hands," says the "Federalist," in that momentous canvass of 1788, " whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may be justly pronounced the very definition of a tyranny."1 But the accumulation of Federal power under... | |
 | James Schouler - Constitutional history - 1897 - 352 pages
...sovereignties had already bred a general discontent with the tyrannous tendencies of the Legislature. "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands," says the "Federalist," in that momentous canvass of 1788, " whether of one, a few, or many, and whether... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale, M. L. Hinsdale - Pennsylvania - 1899 - 382 pages
...persons; while free governments tend to division and separation of powers. In the words of Mr. Madison: " The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."1 1 The Federalist, No. 47. CHAPTER XXX THE COMPOSITION OF CONGRESS AND THE ELECTION OF ITS... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1901 - 520 pages
...the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Were the federal Constitution, therefore, really chargeable with this accumulation of power, or with... | |
 | SIR GEORGE CORNEWALL LEWIS, BART. - 1901 - 448 pages
...the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. The oracle who is always consulted and cited on this subject is the celebrated Montesquieu.» — «... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1901 - 536 pages
...the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Were the federal Constitution, therefore, really chargeable with this accumulation of power, or with... | |
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