 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 should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.  The Works of James Abram Garfield - Page 411by James Abram Garfield - 1882Full view - About this book
 | 1913 - 262 pages
...which Montesquieu was guided, it may clearly be inferred that, in saying "There can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates," or, " if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive... | |
 | James Parker Hall - 1914 - 528 pages
...union 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... | |
 | William Bennett Munro - 1914 - 220 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 monarch or... | |
 | 1911 - 652 pages
...inspiration from a study of the British Constitution. He declares that there can be no liberty where the legislative and 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,... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - 1915 - 1154 pages
...which Montesquieu was guided, it may clearly be inferred that in saying ' there can be no levity where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates; ' or, quoting him again, ' If the power of judging be not separated from the legislative... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - 1916 - 1144 pages
...which Montesquieu was guided, it may clearly 'be inferred that in saying ' there can be no levity where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates; ' or, quoting him again, ' If the power of judging be not separated from the legislative... | |
 | Jeremiah Simeon Young - 1917 - 206 pages
...of political liberty. In his work, Esprit des Lois, he says : If the executive and legislative power are united in the same person or in the same body of persons, there is no liberty because of the danger that the same monarch or the same senate may make... | |
 | 1917 - 1234 pages
...the new government and organized its powers, they firmly believed that "there can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united In the same person or body of magistracy ; or if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive... | |
 | Albert Frederick Pollard - 1920 - 430 pages
...attached to it. 1 W. Bondy, The Separation of Governmental Powers (Columbia University), 1896, p. 13. " When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body," says Montesquieu, " there can be no liberty " ; and again, " there is no liberty if the judicial... | |
 | George McKinnon Wrong - 1921 - 200 pages
...constitution seems to lumber heavily and the American Constitution is no exception. Montesquieu had said that "when the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person . . . there can be no liberty," and the f ramers of the Constitution accepted his teaching that "power... | |
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