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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... "
Representation of Congress and Congressional Interests in Court: Hearings ... - Page 256
by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Separation of Powers - 1976 - 756 pages
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Cobbett's Political Register, Volume 14

William Cobbett - Great Britain - 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...
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The Eloquence of the British Senate: Being a Selection of the Best ..., Volume 2

William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 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...
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Parliamentary speeches from 1761 to 1802

William Hazlitt - Orators - 1810 - 612 pages
...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 tvrannical laws to execute them in a tyrannical manner. No liberty can exist, if the judiciary power...
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Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, Volume 17

Great Britain - 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,"...
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Cobbett's Political Register, Volume 17

William Cobbett - Great Britain - 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...
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The Federalist: On the New Constitution

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1817 - 570 pages
...Montesquieu was guided, it may clearly be inferred, that in aaying, " 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 judg" ing be not separated from the legislative and executive...
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The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, by Mr ...

James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1818 - 882 pages
...impeachment of a third, can try and condemn all the subordinate officers in the executive department. The reasons on which Montesquieu grounds his maxim,...liberty, because apprehensions may arise lest the same tl monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to " execute them in a tyrannical manner." Again,...
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The Spirit of Laws, Volumes 1-2

Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 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...
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The Federalist: On the New Constitution

James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1826 - 736 pages
...impeachment of a third, can try and condemn all the subordinate officers in the executive department. The reasons on which Montesquieu grounds his maxim,...a further demonstration of his meaning. " When the legisla" tive and executive powers are united in the same person or " body," says he, " there can be...
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Paley's Moral and Political Philosophy

William Paley - Ethics - 1835 - 324 pages
...this principle generally acceded to 1 And the following reasons for it are given by Montesquieu : " When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body, there can be no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact...
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