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" When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical... "
The Eloquence of the British Senate: Being a Selection of the Best Speeches ... - Page 346
by William Hazlitt - 1809
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Political Register and Impartial Review of New Books: V. 1-5, Volume 2

1768 - 478 pages
...magiftrateif there " can be no liberty ; becaufe apprehenSions may arife, left the " fame monarch qr Senate Should enact tyrannical laws, to '? execute them in a tyrannical manner." Now if it Should appear, that, as the houfe of commons has been for fome time constituted, the legislative...
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The New annual register, or General repository of history, politics, and ...

1796 - 784 pages
...can be jio liberty ; becaufe apprehenfions may arife left the fame monarch or fenate fliuuld enaft tyrannical laws to execute them in a tyrannical manner. No liberty can exill, if the judiciary power be not feparated from the legiilative and the executive. Were it joined...
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The Political Writings of John Dickinson, Esquire: Late President ..., Volume 2

John Dickinson - Constitutional law - 1801 - 650 pages
...one man need not be afraid of another. When the power of making laws and the power of executing them, are united in the same person, or in the same body...tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner." " THE power of judging should be exercised by persons taken from the body of the people, at certain...
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Cobbett's Political Register, Volume 14

William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1808 - 534 pages
...the two powers of making the v,Want* executing the law should never meet. Montesquieu declares that " when the legislative and executive powers are united in *• the same person, o> in the same body of " magistrates, tit: re can be no liberty." * But he afterwards mmnt.iins, not...
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Cobbett's Political Register, Volume 17

William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1810 - 538 pages
...Now let us hear what that able and admirable, writer Montesquieu says upon this stale of things. " When the legislative and executive " powers are united...of magistrates, " there can be no liberty ; because ap" prehensions may arise, lest the same " monarch or senate, or the same senate, " should enact tyrannical...
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Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, Volume 17

Great Britain - 1810 - 538 pages
...government be so constituted " as that one man be not afraid of another. " But," says Montesquieu, " when the " legislative and executive powers are "united in the same person, or in'the " same body of magistrates, there can be " no Liberty'; because apprehensions " may arise,"...
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Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, Volume 14

Great Britain - 1808 - 542 pages
...should never meet. Montesquieu de-dares that " when the legislative and executive powers are united la " the same person, or in the same body of " magistrates, there can be no liberty." * But he afterwards maintains, not ĞItOi gether consistently with this aphorism, " that the executive...
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The Federalist: On the New Constitution

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1817 - 570 pages
...department. The reasons on which Montesquieu grounds his maxim, are & further demonstration of his meaning. " When the legislative " and executive powers are united in the same person or body,'' says he, " there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may " arise lest the same monarch...
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The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, by Mr ...

James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1818 - 882 pages
...department. The reasons on which Montesquieu grounds his maxim, are a further demonstration of his meaning. " When " the legislative and executive powers are united in the " same person or body," says he, " there can be no " liberty, because apprehensions may arise lest the same tl monarch...
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Journals of the American Congress: from 1774-1788: In Four Volumes, Volume 1

United States. Continental Congress - Law - 1823 - 644 pages
...one man need not be afraid of another. When the power of making laws and the power of executing them, are united in the same person, or in the same body...tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner." " The power of judging should be exercised by persons taken from the body of the people, at certain...
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