 | Samuel Furman Hunt - 1908 - 530 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... | |
 | Chrisenberry Lee Bates - 1908 - 644 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... | |
 | Georgia Bar Association - 1909 - 344 pages
...doctrines of Montesquieu, the framers of our system held to the view that "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."... | |
 | Raymond Garfield Gettell - 1911 - 620 pages
...of the Laws " indicates Montesquieu's idea of liberty as depending upon the separation of powers : When the legislative and executive powers are united...body there can be no liberty, because apprehensions might arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical... | |
 | Allen Johnson - 1912 - 620 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... | |
 | Allen Johnson - 1912 - 618 pages
...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 person, or body of magistrates," or, "if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers,"... | |
 | John Henry Wigmore - 1912 - 1076 pages
...latter we shall call the judiciary power, and the other simply the executive power of the State. . . . 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... | |
 | Edwin Wandesforde Freeman, California - 1912 - 400 pages
...constitution are subverted." The Federalist, p. 375. Montesquieu says: "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 charging be not separate from the legislative and executive... | |
 | 1913 - 262 pages
...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 person, or body of magistrates," or, " if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive... | |
 | Frederick Newton Judson - 1913 - 288 pages
...The latter we shall call the judiciary power, and the other simply the executive power of the State 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... 
