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" And herein indeed consists the true excellence of the English government, that all the parts of it form a mutual check upon each other. In the legislature, the people are a check upon the nobility, and the nobility a check upon the people, by the mutual... "
Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences ... - Page 24
1816
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The First American Constitutions: Republican Ideology and the Making of the ...

Willi Paul Adams - 2001 - 406 pages
...theory concerning the division of power: And herein indeed consists the true excellence of the English government, that all the parts of it form a mutual check upon each other. In the legislature, the people are a check upon the nobility, and the nobility a check upon the people; by...
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James Madison and the Future of Limited Government

John Curtis Samples - 2002 - 260 pages
...that "all parts" of the English constitution: form a mutual check upon each other. In the legislature, the people are a check upon the nobility, and the nobility a check upon the people; . . . while the king is a check upon both, which preserves the executive power from encroachments....
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The Cloaking of Power: Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial ...

Paul O. Carrese - 2010 - 350 pages
...than any they intended to remedy" (* 154-55). Thus, "the true excellence of the English government" is that "all the parts of it form a mutual check upon each other," because "every branch of our civil polity supports and is supported, regulates and is regulated, by...
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The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America

Lee Ward - 2004 - 478 pages
...Britain's complex and compound Constitution: Herein indeed consists the true excellence of the English government, that all the parts of it form a mutual check upon each other. In the legislature, the people are a check upon the nobility, and the nobility a check upon the people,......
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Dismantling American Common Law: Liberty and Justice in Our Transformed Courts

Kyle Scott - 2007 - 194 pages
...III.3.27 Much like Montesquieu, Blackstone asserts that "the true excellence of the English government is that all the parts of it form a mutual check upon each other . . . every branch of our civil polity supports and is supported, regulates and is regulated, by the...
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Essays in Law and History

Sir William Searle Holdsworth - 1995 - 334 pages
...have realized. It runs as follows:1 'And herein indeed consists the true excellence of the English government, that all the parts of it form a mutual check upon each other. In the legislature the people are a check upon the nobility, and the nobility a check upon the people, by...
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