 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...  Constitutional Restraints Upon the Judiciary: Hearings Before the ... - Page 239by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution - 1982 - 591 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard - 1908 - 456 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... | |
 | Raymond Garfield Gettell - 1911 - 620 pages
...the Laws " indicates Montesquieu's idea of liberty as depending upon the separation of powers : When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body there can be no liberty, because apprehensions might arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact... | |
 | Edwin Wandesforde Freeman, California - 1912 - 400 pages
...fundamental principles of a free constitution are subverted." The Federalist, p. 375. Montesquieu says: "There can be no liberty, where the legislative and...person or body of magistrates .... or if the power of charging be not separate from the legislative and executive powers." Spirit of Laws, bk. XI, 6. Under... | |
 | Allen Johnson - 1912 - 620 pages
...as often to attend and participate in its deliberations^ though not admitted to a legislative vote. From these facts, by which Montesquieu was guided,...be no liberty where the legislative and executive pnwrc ?re united- in-the same personfJQr body of magistrates." or, "if the power of| judging be not... | |
 | Allen Johnson - 1912 - 614 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... | |
 | John Henry Wigmore - 1912 - 1076 pages
...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... | |
 | Arthur Pierre Poley - 1913 - 942 pages
...excellence. He affirmed that there could be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers were united in the same person or body of magistrates, or if the power of judging was not separated from the legislative and executive powers. "Tie _ ^ In examining Montesquieu's position,... | |
 | Frederick Newton Judson - 1913 - 288 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... | |
 | William Bennett Munro - 1914 - 220 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... | |
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