 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 1750 - 538 pages
...be then no liberty ; becaufc apprehenfions may arife, left the fame monarch or fenate mould enadl: tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner....there is no liberty, if the power of judging . be not feparated from the legiflative and executive powers. Were it joined with the legiflative, the life... | |
 | Historical miscellany - 1774 - 352 pages
...can be no liberty ; becaufe apprehenfions may arife, left the fame monarch or fen.ite fhould enaQ: tyrannical laws, to execute them in a, tyrannical...there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not feparated from the legiflative and executive powers. Were it joined with the legiflative, the life... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...there can be no liberty; becaufe apprehenfions may arift, left the fame monarch or fenateihouldenaft tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner....there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not feparated from the legiilative and executive powers. Were it joined with the legiilative, the life... | |
 | John Adams - Constitutional history - 1797 - 448 pages
...liberty; becaufe apprehenfions may arife, left the fame monarch or fenate, or the fame fen ate fliould enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical...there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not feparated from the legiftative and executive powers : were it joined with the legiflative, the life... | |
 | John Dickinson - Pennsylvania - 1801 - 650 pages
...one man need not be afraid of another. When the power of making laws and the power of executing them, are united in the same person, or in the same body...tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner." " THE power of judging should be exercised by persons taken from the body of the people, at certain... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1802 - 378 pages
...there can be no liberty ; becaufe apprehenfions may arife, left the fame monarch or fenate fhould enaft tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner....there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not feparated from the legiflative and executive powers. Were it joined with the legiflative, the life... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...this 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...tyrannical laws to execute them in a tyrannical manner. No liberty can exist, if the judiciary power be not separated from the legislative and the executive.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Orators - 1810 - 612 pages
...this 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...arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tvrannical laws to execute them in a tyrannical manner. No liberty can exist, if the judiciary power... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1810 - 538 pages
...Now let us hear what that able and admirable, writer Montesquieu says upon this stale of things. " When the legislative and executive " powers are united...of magistrates, " there can be no liberty ; because ap" prehensions may arise, lest the same " monarch or senate, or the same senate, " should enact tyrannical... | |
 | Great Britain - 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...of magistrates, " there can be no liberty ; because ap" prehensions may arise, lest the same " monarch or senate, or the same senate, " should enact tyrannical... | |
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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... 
