 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 318 pages
...whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart,...experiments ancient and modern : some of them in our own country, and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If,... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1851 - 580 pages
...whatever the form of Government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it which predominates in the human heart,...experiments, ancient and modern ; some of them in our own country, and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If,... | |
 | Indiana - 1851 - 724 pages
...whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate ofthat love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart,...depositories, and constituting each the guardian of the public \veal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments, ancient and modern ; some of... | |
 | William Hickey - 1851 - 588 pages
...whatever the form of Government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it which predominates in the human heart,...dividing and distributing it into different depositories, aricTconstituting each the guardian of the public weal, against invasions by the others, has been evinced... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1852 - 586 pages
...whatever the form of Government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of tho truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power,... | |
 | Lewis C. Munn - Autographs - 1853 - 450 pages
...whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power and proneness to abuse it which predominates in the human heart...experiments, ancient and modern, — some of them in our own country, and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If,... | |
 | Joseph Bartlett Burleigh - Parliamentary practice - 1853 - 354 pages
...form of government, a real]65 despotism. — A just estimate of that love of power, and [66] proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart,...constituting each the Guardian of the Public Weal [against]07 invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern ; some of them... | |
 | Flavel Scott Mines - Anglican converts - 1853 - 616 pages
...we may crown them with the farewell words of Washington, urging on the people of the United States " the necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise...constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasion by the others. The consolidation of these powers in one," says Washington, at once the General,... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - Presidents - 1853 - 466 pages
...real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominate in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of...of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political pow er, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian... | |
 | Flavel Scott Mines - History - 1853 - 594 pages
...Washington, urging on the people of the United States " the necessity of reciprocal checks in the §xerelse of political power, by dividing and distributing it...constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasion by the others. The consolidation of these powers in one," says Washington, at once the General,... | |
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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. A just estimate of that love of power and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the... 
