 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1817 - 570 pages
...feeble against the more powerful members of the government. The legislative department is every where extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. The founders of our republics have so much merit for the wisdom which they have displayed, that no... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1818 - 882 pages
...feeble, against the more powerful members of the government. The legislative department is every where extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. The founders of our republics have so much merit for tho wisdom which they have displayed, that no... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1834 - 800 pages
...several passages from the forty-eighth number of " Publius." "The Legislative Department is every where extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex." Again: it is said that the founders of our republics "seem never to have recollected the danger from... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1826 - 736 pages
...is indispensably necessary for the more feeble, against the more powerful members of the government. The legislative department is everywhere extending...activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. The founders of our republics have so much merit for the wisdom which they have displayed, that no... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...feeble, against the more powerful members of the government: the legislative department is every where extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex." The founders of our republics, it is remarked, distinctly saw the danger to liberty, from an hereditary... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1837 - 516 pages
...is indispensably necessary for the more feeble, against the more powerful members of the government. The legislative department is everywhere extending...activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. The founders of our republics have so much merit for the wisdom which they have displayed, that no... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 562 pages
...department is to absorb all power. Mr. Madison says — "The legislative department is every where extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex." Federalist, page 278. Ponder, Executor, vs. Graham. — Opinion of Court. It is very far from being... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1851 - 946 pages
...feeble against the more powerful members of the government. The legislative department is every where extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex." "In a representative republic, where the executive magistracy is carefully limited, both in the extent... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - Finance - 1851 - 904 pages
...feeble against the more powerful members of the government. The legislative department is every where extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex." "In a representative republic, where the executive magistracy is carefully limited, both in the extent... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - Electronic books - 1852 - 656 pages
...aggrandizement of the legislature at the expense of the other departments;" or, in the words of the first, " The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all forces into its impetuous vortex." Even Mr. Jefferson denounced an unchecked legislature, or a concentration... | |
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The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. 
