 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 756 pages
...language of Mr. Madison, speaking on this very subject, in the forty-eighth number of the Federalist: "In a representative republic, where the executive...magistracy is carefully limited both in the extent and duration of its power, and where the legislative power is exercised by an assembly which is inspired,... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1817 - 570 pages
...feeble against the more powerful members of the government. The legislative department is every where extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. The founders of our republics have so much merit for the wisdom which they have displayed, that no... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1818 - 882 pages
...feeble, against the more powerful members of the government. The legislative department is every where extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. The founders of our republics have so much merit for tho wisdom which they have displayed, that no... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 738 pages
...tyranny may Wf 11 be apprehended on some favorable emergencies to Mart up in tiie same quarter. Hut in a representative republic, where the Executive...Magistracy is carefully limited, both in the extent and duration of its power, and where the legislative power is exercised by an assembly which is inspired... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1834 - 800 pages
...several passages from the forty-eighth number of " Publius." "The Legislative Department is every where extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex." Again: it is said that the founders of our republics "seem never to have recollected the danger from... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1826 - 736 pages
...is indispensably necessary for the more feeble, against the more powerful members of the government. The legislative department is everywhere extending...activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. The founders of our republics have so much merit for the wisdom which they have displayed, that no... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 552 pages
...tyranny may well be apprehended, on some favorable emergency, to start up in the same quarter. But, in a representative republic, where the executive...magistracy is carefully limited, both in the extent and duration of its power, and where the legislative power is exercised by an assembly, which is inspired,... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...feeble, against the more powerful members of the government: the legislative department is every where extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex." The founders of our republics, it is remarked, distinctly saw the danger to liberty, from an hereditary... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1837 - 516 pages
...is indispensably necessary for the more feeble, against the more powerful members of the government. The legislative department is everywhere extending...activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. The founders of our republics have so much merit for the wisdom which they have displayed, that no... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 562 pages
...department is to absorb all power. Mr. Madison says — "The legislative department is every where extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex." Federalist, page 278. Ponder, Executor, vs. Graham. — Opinion of Court. It is very far from being... | |
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The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. 
