| Virginia. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1890 - 928 pages
...the 47th No. of the Federalist, written by Mr. Madison, and read aa follows: " No political truth is of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the...patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection a founded . The accumulation of all powers, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, in the same hands,... | |
| William Paley - Ethics - 1835 - 324 pages
...expounding them, and deciding their proper application. Mr. Madison, in speaking of this division, says, " No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic...authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty."* 213 What provision is there that they will not exercise national powers ? 214 Recapitulate the principles... | |
| Alexander Hamilton - 1851 - 946 pages
...maxim, that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments ought to be separate and distinct. No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic...the objection is founded. The accumulation of all power, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many ; whether... | |
| Alexander Hamilton - Finance - 1851 - 904 pages
...maxim, that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments ought to be separate and distinct. No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic...the objection is founded. The accumulation of all power, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many ; whether... | |
| Alexander Hamilton - Finance - 1851 - 908 pages
...judiciary departments ought to be separate and distinct. No political trutli is certainly of greatsr intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority...the objection is founded. The accumulation of all power, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many ; whether... | |
| George Robertson - Kentucky - 1855 - 422 pages
...three departments of government Indepento it* primyplcs. ' dent of each other, eavo, "That uo politioul truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or...authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty. The accumulation of .ill power, legislative, executive and judicial in the same hands, whether of one,... | |
| Campaign literature - 1868 - 424 pages
...modern, some of them in our country, and under our own eyes. — [Farewell Address, James Madison said : The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one or few, or many, may be called the definition of tyranny. — [Federalist. John Adams said : A total... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1869 - 856 pages
...to the danger of being crushed by the disproportionate weight of other parts. No political truth.is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped...liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation_pf all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same-hands, whether of one,... | |
| William O. Bateman - Constitutional law - 1876 - 416 pages
...officers t1nctentrusted with any one, shall not be entrusted with any other. No political principle is of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, judicial, and executive, in the same hands, whether of... | |
| Burke Aaron Hinsdale - United States - 1891 - 548 pages
...one man or of one set of men. The result of such a state of things Mr. Madison has thus described : " The accumulation of all powers, Legislative, Executive,...in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elected, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."2... | |
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