 | Cato Institute, Edward H. Crane, David Boaz - 2003 - 718 pages
...existing regulations during the reauthorization process. Separation of Powers: The Bulwark of Liberty When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty. —Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws Article... | |
 | Mads Qvortrup - 2003 - 162 pages
...inspired both James Madison and Jean-Jacques Rousseau). In The Spirit of the Laws Montesquieu wrote: When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty . . . Again, there is no liberty if the judiciary... | |
 | Helen Fenwick, Gavin Phillipson - 2003 - 1143 pages
...of powers between executive and judiciary. The classic formulation of the doctrine is Montesquieu's: When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty. ..Again, there is no liberty if the power... | |
 | Shirley Elson Roessler, Reny Miklos - 2003 - 339 pages
...liberty, it is requisite the government be so constituted as 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... | |
 | Samuel Kernell - 2003 - 400 pages
...combined in one body of men, are inconsistent with all freedom; the celebrated Montesquieu tells us, that "when the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty." . . .The president general is dangerously... | |
 | James A. Curry, Richard B. Riley, Richard M. Battistoni - 2003 - 660 pages
...Madison again emphasized the importance of Montesquieu's maxim that "there can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body of magistrates." But Madison's major modification of a purist separation principle in these essays... | |
 | H. L. Pohlman - 2004 - 340 pages
...Montesquieu. In the most influential political work of its day, Montesquieu in the Spirit of Laws wrote: . . . When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty, . . . Again, there is no liberty if the judicial... | |
 | Oliver O'Donovan, Joan Lockwood O'Donovan - 2004 - 334 pages
...convictions, and to take stock of its anxieties. In this context we may see a point in Montesquieu's anxiety: "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... | |
 | Brian Z. Tamanaha - 2004 - 196 pages
...manner such that "power should be a check to power."33 His prescription was a separation of powers: 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... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 460 pages
...liberty, it is requisite the government be so constituted as 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... | |
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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... 
