 | Robert Christie - Canada - 1848 - 388 pages
...of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner/' " The power of judging should be exercised by persons taken from the body of the people, at certain... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - Electronic books - 1852 - 444 pages
...judicial power consists one main preservative of the public liberty" (1 Bl. Com. 269); that, indeed, "there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not...separated from the legislative and executive powers." (Montesquieu, B. 11. Ch. 6.) In other words, that "the union of these two powers is tyranny" (7 Johnson... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - Law - 1852 - 448 pages
...judicial power consists one main preservative of the public liberty" (1 Bl. Com. 269) ; that, indeed, "there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not...separated from the legislative and executive powers." (Montesquieu, B. 11. Ch. 6.) In other words, that "the union of these two powers is tyranny" (7 Johnson... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1852 - 528 pages
...body," says he, " there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may arise lest " the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws to exe"cute them in a tyrannical manner." Again, " Were the power of "judging joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the sub" ject would... | |
 | Hugh Seymour Tremenheere - Constitutions - 1854 - 422 pages
...the judiciary remains truly distinct from both the Legislature and the Executive. For I agree that ' there is no liberty if the power of judging be not...separated from the legislative and executive powers.' It proves in the last place, that as liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but... | |
 | George Bowyer - Jurisprudence - 1854 - 424 pages
...body,' says he, 1 there can be no liberty, because apprehension may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.' Again, were the power of judging joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the subject would be... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1857 - 702 pages
...body of magistrates, there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws to execute them in a tyrannical manner." " The power of judging should be exercised by persons taken from the body of the people, at certain... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1859 - 674 pages
...body of magistrates, there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws to execute them in a tyrannical manner." " The power of judging should be exercised by persons taken from'the body of the people, at certain... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 668 pages
...body of magistrates, there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws to execute them in a tyrannical manner." " The power of judging should be exercised by persons taken from the body of the people, at certain... | |
 | Henry Barton Dawson - Constitutional law - 1863 - 770 pages
...body, " says he, " there can be "no liberty, because apprehensions may arise lest the " same monarch or Senate should enact tyrannical laws "to execute them in a tyrannical manner." Again, " Were the power of judging joined with the Legisla" tive, the life and liberty of the subject would... | |
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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical... 
