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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... "
Indian Trust Reform Act: Hearing Before the Committee on Indian Affairs ... - Page 251
by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- ) - 2005 - 348 pages
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Readings in Political Science

Raymond Garfield Gettell - Political science - 1911 - 620 pages
...the Laws " indicates Montesquieu's idea of liberty as depending upon the separation of powers : When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body there can be no liberty, because apprehensions might arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact...
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The California Public Utilities Act: With Constitutional Provisions of ...

Edwin Wandesforde Freeman, California - Corporation law - 1912 - 400 pages
...fundamental principles of a free constitution are subverted." The Federalist, p. 375. Montesquieu says: "There can be no liberty, where the legislative and...person or body of magistrates .... or if the power of charging be not separate from the legislative and executive powers." Spirit of Laws, bk. XI, 6. Under...
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Readings in American Constitutional History, 1776-1876, Part 1

Allen Johnson - Constitutional history - 1912 - 614 pages
...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 monarch or senate...
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Select Cases on the Law of Torts: With Notes, and a Summary of ..., Volume 2

John Henry Wigmore - Torts - 1912 - 1076 pages
...we shall call the judiciary power, and the other simply the executive power of the State. . . . 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...
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The Federal Systems of the United States and the British Empire: Their ...

Arthur Pierre Poley - Australia - 1913 - 942 pages
...excellence. He affirmed that there could be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers were united in the same person or body of magistrates, or if the power of judging was not separated from the legislative and executive powers. "Tie _ ^ In examining Montesquieu's position,...
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The Judiciary and the People

Frederick Newton Judson - Courts - 1913 - 288 pages
...latter we shall call the judiciary power, and the other simply the executive power of the State 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...
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Selections from the Federalist

William Bennett Munro - Constitutional history - 1914 - 220 pages
...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 monarch or senate...
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Readings in Political Philosophy

Francis William Coker - Political science - 1914 - 618 pages
...liberty, it is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another. 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...
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Illustrative Cases on Constitutional Law

James Parker Hall - Constitutional law - 1914 - 528 pages
...might soon be an overbalance for the legislative." 1 Bl. Comm. 269. Baron Montesquieu writes: "When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or the same body of magistrates, there cart be no liberty, because apprehensions may arise, lest the same...
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Stone & Webster Public Service Journal, Volume 8

Electrical engineering - 1911 - 652 pages
...as will be recalled, obtained his inspiration from a study of the British Constitution. He declares that there can be no liberty where the legislative...executive powers are united in the same person, or "if the power of judging be not separated form the legislative and executive powers." James Madison,...
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