...definitions still form imperatives to which our modern institutions listen. They also hear these admonitions: When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistracy, there can be then no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or...

...le meme monarque, ou le meme Senat ne fasse des loix tyranniques, pour les executer tyranniquement." "When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same corps, there can be no liberty. Because, it may be feared, that the same monarch or senate will make...

...the separation of governmental powers as a fundamental principle of our modern political science. " When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body," says Montesquieu, " there can be 1 See post, page 76. 2 Locke on Civil Government, chap, xii;...

..."the truth of this simple position, that to live by the will of one man, or set of men, is the pro1. "When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistracy," wrote Montesquieu, "there can be then no liberty." Nor can there be liberty "if the power...

...ordinary law with or without retrospective effect.' At p. 2381 he said: 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...

...political decisions. Quoting Montesquieu, the Federalist Papers made the point in the following manner: "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...

...hand in hand with the othersgovernment necessarily grows. Introduction There can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates. —Montesquieu When America's Founders gathered to draft a new constitution for...

...stand in fear of any other citizen. ' When the legislative power is united with the executive power in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there is no liberty, because it may well be feared that the single ruler or the single senate will enact...

...powers as essential for the preservation of liberty. Montesquieu wrote that liberty is jeopardized when "the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person" and when "a judiciary power [is] not separated from the legislative and executive. . . . [AJpprehensions...

...which Montesquieu was guided it may clearly he inferred, that in saying "there can he no liherty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or hody of magistrates," or, "if the power of judging he not separated from the legislative and executive...