 | William Cobbett - 1808 - 534 pages
...the two powers of making the v,Want* executing the law should never meet. Montesquieu declares that " when the legislative and executive powers are united in *• the same person, o> in the same body of " magistrates, tit: re can be no liberty." * But he afterwards mmnt.iins, not... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1809 - 608 pages
...this 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 - 1810 - 538 pages
...Now let us hear what that able and admirable, writer Montesquieu says upon this stale of things. " 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 ap" prehensions may arise, lest... | |
 | 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,"... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison - 1817 - 570 pages
...department. The 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 - 1818 - 882 pages
...department. 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 tl monarch or senate... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 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... | |
 | 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 - 1837 - 516 pages
...department. 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... | |
 | Thomas George Western, Jean Louis de Lolme - 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... | |
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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... 
