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 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...subject. It was so remarkably to the point, that he would quote it. That great man observes, " 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... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1810 - 538 pages
...government be so constituted " as that one man be not afraid of another. " But." says Montesquieu, " 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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1810 - 538 pages
...let us hear what that able and admirable writer Montesquieu says upon this state of things. " vVhen the legislative and executive " powers are united in the same person, " or in the same body of magistrates, " there can be no liberty ; because ap" prehensions may arise, lest... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1817 - 570 pages
...reasons on which Montesquieu grounds his maxim, are & further demonstration of his meaning. " When the legislative " and executive powers are united in the same person or body,'' says he, " there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may " arise lest the same monarch or senate... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1818 - 882 pages
...reasons on which Montesquieu grounds his maxim, are a further demonstration of his meaning. " When " the legislative and executive powers are united in the " same person or body," says he, " there can be no " liberty, because apprehensions may arise lest the same tl monarch or senate... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 1823 - 810 pages
...liberty, it is requisite the government be so constituted as one man needs not be afraid oi another. When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can he no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise, lest the... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1826 - 736 pages
...vote. From these facts, by which Montesquieu was guided, it may clearly be inferred, that in saying, " there can be no liberty, " where the legislative and...powers are united in the " same person, or body of magistrates ;" or, " if the power of "judging, be not separated from the legislative and executive... | |
 | William Paley - Ethics - 1835 - 324 pages
...principle generally acceded to 1 And the following reasons for it are given by Montesquieu : " When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body, there can be no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact... | |
 | Tracts - 1836 - 506 pages
...requisite that the government be so constituted, as that one man need not be afraid of another. •" 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... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1837 - 516 pages
...reasons on which Montesquieu grounds his maxim, are a further demonstration of his meaning. " When the legislative " and executive powers are united in the same person or body," says he, "there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may " arise lest the same monarch or senate... | |
 | Thomas George Western, Jean Louis de Lolme - Constitutional law - 1838 - 628 pages
...liberty, it is necessary the government be so constituted as that one man be not afraid of another. 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... | |
 | Constitutional history - 1842 - 492 pages
...vote. From these facts, by which Montesquieu was guided, it may clearly be inferred, that in saying, " there can be no liberty, where " the legislative and executive powers are united in the same per" son, or body of magistrates ;" or, " if the power of judging, be " not separated from the legislative... | |
 | 1845 - 624 pages
...Were it joined to the executive power, the judge might behave with violence and oppression. " When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty. " There would be an end of everything, were... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 650 pages
...extent of this maxim, and the reason by which it is supported is, according to Montesquieu, that " when the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may arise lest the monarch... | |
 | John Adams - United States - 1851 - 666 pages
...the government be so constituted, as that one citizen need not be afraid of another citizen. " 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... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1852 - 528 pages
...reasons on which Montesquieu grounds his maxim, are a further demonstration of his meaning. " When the legislative and " executive powers are united in the same person or body," says he, " there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may arise lest " the same monarch or senate... | |
 | George Bowyer - Jurisprudence - 1854 - 424 pages
...The reasons on which Montesquieu grounds his maxim are a further demonstration of his meaning. 1 When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body,' says he, 1 there can be no liberty, because apprehension may arise lest the same monarch or senate... | |
 | Civilization - 1861 - 688 pages
...the rights of nations ; the Executive, in affairs which relate to civil right. There is no liberty if the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body of persons, because the same monarch or senate may make tyrannical laws in order to execute them tp-annically.... | |
 | Henry Barton Dawson - Constitutional law - 1863 - 770 pages
...The reasons on which MONTESQUIEU grounds his maxim are a further demonstration of his meaning. " When the Legislative and Executive powers are united " in the same person or body, " says he, " there can be "no liberty, because apprehensions may arise lest the " same monarch or Senate... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1864 - 772 pages
...vote. From these facts, by which MONTESQUIEU was guided, it may clearly be inferred, that in saying, " There can "be no liberty, where the Legislative and..." powers are united in the same person, or body of " magistrates," or, "if the power of judging be not sep'' arated from the Legislative and Executive... | |
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