...the same government would be the best way to protect against abuses. In Federalist 47, Madison wrote: The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary in the same hands, whether of one, few or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very...

...on the State of Virginia, 120, 121. See also James Madison's formulation in The Federalist, no. 47: "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny" (The Federalist, Jacob C. Cooke, ed.,...

...checks and balances, and contributes some of the most memorable passages in all political literature. No POLITICAL TRUTH is certainly of greater intrinsic...authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty than [the separation of powers]. The accumulation of all powers legislative, executive, and judicial in...

...four of The Federalist papers defended the principle. n75 James Madison went so far as to state that "[n]o political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic...authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty" than the separation of powers. n76 But [*782J the Framers also realized that separating powers did not necessitate...

...disproportionate weight of other pant": "No political truth ii certainly of greater intrinsic value, or if stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which this objection ia founded." ALEXANDER HAMILTON. JAMKS MADISON * JOHN JAY, THE FtnfkALBT PATCHS, New...

...widely approved doctrine by the late eighteenth century. In Federalist No. 47, James Madison wrote, "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands.. .may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." Madison then observed, "The constitution...

...absolutely central guarantee of a just Government. In No. 4.J of The Federalist, Madison wrote that '[njo political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic...stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons o( liberty.'" 3 By diffusing governmental power, the Framers sought to ensure j-hat such power would...

...forty-seventh Federalist, Madison asserts that "No political truth is ... of greater intrinsic value" than that "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very...

...of a single branch is a threat to liberty. The Federalist states the axiom in these explicit terms: The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. The Federalist No. 47, p. 301 (C. Rossiter...

...system of government than the separation of powers. James Madison warned, in Federalist No. 47, that the "accumulation of all powers legislative, executive and judiciary in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." Our system of "[separation of powers...