| American fiction - 1915 - 556 pages
...the danger of being crushed by the disproportionate weight of other parts." He goes on to say that "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands .... may be pronounced the very definition of tyranny"; but he then undertakes an elaborate argument... | |
| Burke Aaron Hinsdale, Mary Louise Hinsdale - Ohio - 1896 - 380 pages
...and so declares what it is. In this way liberty is secured. A great American statesman one said : ' ' 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.... | |
| 1896 - 848 pages
...or is stamped with the authorhy of more enlightened [30] patrons of liberty, than that on which this objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers,...executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one or a few [30] or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced... | |
| Thomas Francis Bayard - Free enterprise - 1896 - 52 pages
...legislative, and judicial powers in the same hands. "No political truth," said he, "is of greater political value or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty than that on which this objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary in... | |
| James Schouler - Constitutional history - 1897 - 352 pages
...sovereignties had already bred a general discontent with the tyrannous tendencies of the Legislature. "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands," says the "Federalist," in that momentous canvass of 1788, " whether of one, a few, or many, and whether... | |
| Elizur Brace Hinsdale - Lawyers - 1901 - 346 pages
...maxim that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments ought to be separate and distinct. No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic...authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty." Jefferson said: " The concentration of these powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of... | |
| Elizur Brace Hinsdale - Lawyers - 1901 - 348 pages
...maxim that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments ought to be separate and distinct. No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic...authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty." Jefferson said: " The concentration of these powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of... | |
| Alexander Hamilton - Finance - 1904 - 450 pages
...principal objections inculcated by the more respectable adversaries to the Constitution, is its supposed violation of the political maxim, that the legislative,...all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, irithe same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective,... | |
| United States - 1906 - 774 pages
...in realizing it we approach the condition which Alexander Hamilton conceived in the following words: "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive...and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, or a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1988 - 970 pages
...and establish." Art. Ill, § 1. We know that those who framed our Constitution feared the tyranny of "accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands." The Federalist No. 47. p. 300 (H. Lodge ed. 1888) (J. Madison), and sought to guard against it by dispersing... | |
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