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" But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others. "
Consolidation of Bank Examining and Supervisory Functions: Hearings Before ... - Page 155
by United States. Congress. House. Banking and Currency Committee - 1965 - 602 pages
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Law in Times of Crisis: Emergency Powers in Theory and Practice

Oren Gross, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin - Political Science - 2006 - 48 pages
...resist gradual concentration of power in one branch of government a system must be devised so as to give "those who administer each department the necessary...and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others."180 Moreover, it 177 Samuel Issacharoff and Richard H. Pildes, "Between Civil Libertarianism...
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Revisiting Waldo's Administrative State: Constancy and Change in Public ...

David H. Rosenbloom, Howard E. McCurdy - Political Science - 2006 - 252 pages
...administrative decision making. As James Madison perceptively explained in Federalist Paper number 51, "The great security against a gradual concentration...the several powers in the same department, consists of giving to those who administer each department, the necessary constitutional means, and personal...
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Reconstructing the Fourth Amendment: A History of Search and Seizure, 1789-1868

Andrew E. Taslitz - Law - 2006 - 377 pages
...boundaries" [among] ... the three branches of government. "The great security," wrote James Madison, against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist...
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The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions

R. A. W. Rhodes, Sarah A. Binder, Bert A. Rockman - Business & Economics - 2006 - 852 pages
...51, the design of government "consists in giving to those who administer each department [ie branch] the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others" (Hamilton, Madison, Jay, and Fairfield 1787/1937, 337). Ambition is checked, in Madison's vision, through...
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Religion and Politics in the United States

Kenneth D. Wald, Allison Calhoun-Brown - Political Science - 2007 - 470 pages
...The great hope for the preservation of liberty was to equip each branch of the new government with "the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others." Then, in a phrase that nicely encapsulated the Federalist philosophy of humankind, he reiterated the...
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Classics of American Political and Constitutional Thought

Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - History - 2007 - 1236 pages
...of the legislature in this particular, their independence in even other would be merely nominal. But onwealths, and putting themselves under government,...established, settled, known law, received and allowed by The provision for defence must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of...
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Political Contingency: Studying the Unexpected, the Accidental, and the ...

Ian Shapiro, Sonu Bedi - History - 2007 - 296 pages
...undertake a full development of this important idea I will hazard a few general observations . . . the great security against a gradual concentration...personal motives to resist encroachments of the others. The provision for defense must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of...
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America's Survival Guide

Michael Warren - History - 2007 - 235 pages
...^Federalist 'Paper 'No. 47. ^Federalist Paper No. 48. 182He continued in Federalist Paper No. 5: But the great security against a gradual concentration...personal motives to resist encroachments of the others. The provision for defense must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of...
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Originalism, Federalism, and the American Constitutional Enterprise: A ...

Edward A. Purcell - Political Science - 2007 - 311 pages
...theory of factions, Madison maintained that the "double security" required a structure that would give "to those who administer each department the necessary...and personal motives to resist encroachments of the other." Human beings were not "angels" but self-seekers, and government off1cials consequently would...
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The Constitution on the Campaign Trail: The Surprising Political Career of ...

Andrew Busch - Constitutional history - 2007 - 346 pages
...number 51, holds that the greatest security against constitutional usurpation and concentration of power "consists in giving to those who administer each department...constitutional means and personal motives to resist the encroachments of the others." • Hamilton in Federalist 66 defends the impeachment and removal...
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