 | William Hazlitt - 1809 - 608 pages
...subject. It was so remarkably to the point, that he would quote it. That great man observes, " 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... | |
 | 1810 - 538 pages
...let us hear what that able and admirable writer Montesquieu says upon this state of things. " vVhen the legislative and executive " powers are united in the same person, " or in the same body of magistrates, " there can be no liberty ; because ap" prehensions may arise, lest... | |
 | William Cobbett - 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, lest... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1817 - 570 pages
...as often to attend and participate in its deliberations, though not admitted to a legislative vote. From these facts, by which Montesquieu was guided, it may clearly be inferred, that in aaying, " there can be no liberty, " where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - 1818 - 882 pages
...as often to attend and participate in its deliberations, though not admitted to a legislative vote. From these facts, by which Montesquieu was guided,...be no liberty, where the legislative and executive pow" ers are united in the same person, or body of magis" trates ;" or, " if the power of judging,... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1823 - 810 pages
...liberty, it is requisite the government be so constituted as one man needs not be afraid oi another. When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can he no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise, lest the... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1831 - 758 pages
...though not admitted to a legislative vote. From these facts, by which Montesquieu WHS guided, it maji clearly be inferred, that in saying, " there can be...legislative and executive powers are united in the same per" son, or body of magistrates ;" or, " if the power of judging, be "not separated from the legislative... | |
 | William Paley - 1835 - 324 pages
...principle generally acceded to 1 And the following reasons for it are given by Montesquieu : " When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body, there can be no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact... | |
 | Tracts - 1836 - 506 pages
...requisite that the government be so constituted, as that 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... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1837 - 516 pages
...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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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... 
