 The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.  Scrap Book on Law and Politics, Men and Times - Page 132by George Robertson - 1855 - 404 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1817 - 570 pages
...the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers legislative, executive,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Were the federal constitution, therefore, really chargeable with this accumulation of power, or with... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1818 - 882 pages
...the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Were the federal constitution, therefore, really chargeable with this accumulation of power, or with... | |
 | Virginia. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1890 - 928 pages
...the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection a founded . The accumulation of all powers, Legislative, Executive...whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, sell-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." Mr. II. here... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1837 - 516 pages
...the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Were the federal constitution therefore, really chargeable with this accumulation of power, or with... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - Finance - 1851 - 904 pages
...enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all power, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many ; whether hereditary, self-appointed or elective, may justly be pronounced the vary de* James Madison,... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1851 - 946 pages
...enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all power, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many ; whether hereditary, self-appointed or elective, may justly be pronounced the veryde* James Madison,... | |
 | George Bowyer - Jurisprudence - 1854 - 424 pages
...that the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judicial, in the same hands, whether one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."' We have now to consider how the three divided departments of government, or the division and distribution... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1857 - 504 pages
...the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the veryde* finition of tyranny. Were the federal constitution therefore, real.ly chargeable with this... | |
 | Henry Barton Dawson - Constitutional law - 1863 - 770 pages
...the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, Legislative, Executive,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Were the Foederal Constitution, therefore, really chargeable with this accumulation of power, or with... | |
 | Habeas corpus - 1863 - 286 pages
...government of the United States could ever constitutionally become a government of that description : " The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Were the Federal Constitution, therefore, really chargeable with this accumulation of power, or with... | |
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