 | Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
.... The coiicemraiirig these in the same hands is pi ecisely the definition of despotic gove.innwnt. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by plurality of hands, and not Uy a single one. 173 despots would surely be as oppressive as one. Let... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 756 pages
...government to usurp the rights of the weaker branches : " The concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government....seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one. Let those who doubt it turn their eyes on the republic of Venice. As little will it avail us that they... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1817 - 570 pages
...precisely the difini"tion of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that " these powers will^be exercised by a plurality of hands, and «' not by...one. One hundred and seventy-three despots, " would shurely be as oppressive as one. Let those who doubt "it, turn their eyes on the republic of Venice.... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1826 - 558 pages
...executive, and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating these in the same hands, is precisely the definition of despotic government....alleviation, that these powers will be exercised by plurality of hands, and not by a single one. A hundred and seventythree despots would surely be as... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1826 - 736 pages
...executive, and judiciary, result to the legislative body. " The concentrating these in the same hands, is precisely the " definition of despotic government....powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, " aiid not by a single one. One hundred and seventy-three " despots would surely be as oppressive as... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1826 - 538 pages
...executive, and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating these in the same hands, is precisely the definition of despotic government....alleviation, that these powers will be exercised by plurality of hands, and not by a single one. A hundred and seventythree despots would surely be as... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 552 pages
...all the powers of government in the legislative body is of the very essence of despotism ; and it is no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. ' An elective despotism was not the government we fought for ; but one which should not only be founded... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 542 pages
...the powers of government in the legislative body is of the very essence of despotism; and it is BO alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. ' An elective despotism was not the government we fought for ; but one which should not only be founded... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...fortify them, he cites a most instructive passage from Mr. Jefferson's Notes orr Virginia; who says, "one hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one;" and maintains, that we fought for a government which "should not only be founded' on free principles,... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - United States - 1831 - 758 pages
...in the same hands, is pre" cisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no al" leviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality...seventy-three " despots would surely be as oppressive as one. Let those who " doubt it, turn their eyes on the republic of Venice. As little will "it avail us, that... | |
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All the powers of government, legislative, executive and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation, that these powers will be exercised... 
