 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1901 - 536 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... | |
 | 1901 - 282 pages
...quoted with discriminating approval the statement of Montesquieu that " there can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body of magistrates," and added his own statement that "the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,... | |
 | Charles Henry Butler - 1902 - 704 pages
...in one body of men, are inconsistent with all freedom; the celebrated Montesquieu tolls 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, because apprehensions may arise, lest the... | |
 | Charles Augustus Hanna - 1902 - 648 pages
...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 person, or body of magistrates," or " if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers,"... | |
 | Kiyoshi Karl Kawakami - 1903 - 258 pages
...emphasized particularly those parts in which Montesquieu treats of the organization of government. " When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person," says Montesuquieu, " or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehension... | |
 | Samuel Peterson, University of Texas - 1905 - 52 pages
...on this subject is the celebrated Montesquieu;" and Montesquieu said, "There can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates." But there is another reason — one that increases in importance with the increasing... | |
 | Howard Strickland Abbott - 1906 - 1044 pages
...union might soon be an overbalance for the legislative." Montesquieu, Spirit of Laws, hk. 11, c. 6. "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 Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 488 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 Furman Hunt - 1908 - 528 pages
...constitutional and effectual power of self-defense. ' ' There can not be, said Montesquieu, any liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates. The veto power is necessary to prevent legislative encroachments. In the convention... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard - 1908 - 440 pages
...liberty, it is requisite that the government be so constituted that no man need 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... 
