 An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on free principles but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend...  Eloquence of the United States - Page 1361827Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of, magistracy, as that no one could...transcend their legal limits, without being effectually, cheqked and restrained by the others. For this reason that convention, which passed the ordinance of... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 756 pages
...founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy as that no one could...legal limits without being effectually checked and controlled by the others." Should the proceedings of the Covode committee become a precedent, both... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1817 - 570 pages
...free principles, but in which the " powers of government should be so divided and balanced among " several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could...legal limits, without being effectually checked and re" strained by the others. For this reason, that convention which " passed the ordinance of government,... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1818 - 882 pages
...free principles, but in which the " powers of government should be so divided and ba" lanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no " one could...effectually checked and restrained by the others. For •• this reason, that convention winch passed the ordi" nance of government, laid its foundation... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1826 - 558 pages
...founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could...effectually checked and restrained by the others. For this reason that convention, which passed the ordinance of government, laid its foundation on this... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1826 - 736 pages
...free principles, but " in which the powers of government should be so divided and " balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one " could...effectually " checked, and restrained by the others. For this reason, that " convention which passed the ordinance of government, laid " its foundation... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1826 - 538 pages
...founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could...effectually checked and restrained by the others. For this reason that convention, which passed the ordinance of government, laid its foundation on this... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one should transcend their legal limits, without being effectually checked and restrained by the others." Mr. Jefferson produces instances in which, for want of such restraints, the legislature of Virginia... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Tobacco - 1832 - 296 pages
...founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could...legal limits, without being effectually checked and re123 strained by the others. For this reason that convention, which passed the ordinance of government,... | |
 | William M. Holland - Presidents - 1835 - 390 pages
...founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could...effectually checked and restrained by the others. For this reason, that Convention which passed the ordinance of government, laid its foundation on this... | |
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