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" The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. "
Statistical View of the Executive and Legislative Department of the ... - Page 13
by Alexis Poole - 1847
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The Statesman's Manual: The Addresses and Messages of the ..., Volume 1

United States. President - United States - 1854 - 616 pages
...department, to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the...that love of power and proneness to abuse it which predominate in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity...
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History of the United States of America, from the Discovery to the Present Time

Henry Clay Watson - United States - 1854 - 1012 pages
...department, to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the...that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominate in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity...
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The True Republican: Containing the ... Addresses ... and Messages of All ...

Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 pages
...department, to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the...that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominate in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity...
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The Constitution of the United States Compared with Our Own

Hugh Seymour Tremenheere - Constitutions - 1854 - 422 pages
...rights of person and property." " The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the...of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political...
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Nominations of Abe Fortas and Homer Thornberry: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1968 - 1332 pages
...department, to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the...that love of power and proneness to abuse it which predominate in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity...
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Administrative procedure - 1968 - 1430 pages
...department, to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tend* to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the...that love of power and proneness to abuse it which predominate in the human heart, Is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity...
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Nominations of Abe Fortas and Homer Thornberry: Hearings...

United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1968 - 1834 pages
...spirit of encroachment 3 consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, er the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love er and proneness to abuse it which predominate in the human heart, is it to satisfy us of the truth...
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This Sacred Trust: American Nationality 1778-1898

Paul C. Nagel - History - 1971 - 398 pages
...carrier for strong passions inevitably raging in the human mind. Nothing should keep the nation from "a just estimate of that love of power, and proneness...abuse it, which predominates in the human heart." Washington's admonition about human nature brought an appropriate corollary, one which was not forgotten...
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Executive Privilege: the With-holding of Information by the Executive ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1971 - 662 pages
...department, to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one. and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real depotism. "If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional...
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Executive Privilege: the Withholding of Information by the Executive ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Separation of Powers - Executive privilege (Government information) - 1971 - 652 pages
...department, to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one. and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real depotism. "If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional...
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