| Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1076 pages
..."Montesquie's Dissertation on the Spirit of the Laws," in which he said: "There is no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers. When the legislative and executive powers are united in one body or person, there can be no liberty,... | |
| Burton Alva Konkle - Legislators - 1903 - 528 pages
...nature to receive a determination here. The great Montesquieu declares that -there is no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers. Were it joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the subject would be exposed to arbitrary... | |
| Illinois State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1903 - 1024 pages
...every writer of repute upon the subject was agreed with Montesquieu "there can be no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.'' He also declared the judiciary the weakest branch of the government. The novel experiment caused most... | |
| Nebraska State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1912 - 166 pages
...free people, an independent judiciary?" And then quoting Montesquien : "There is no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers. If it were joined to the legislative power, authority over the life and liberty of the citizens would... | |
| Alexander Hamilton - Finance - 1904 - 436 pages
...distinct from both the legislature and the Executive. For I agree, that " there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers." * And it proves, in the last place, that as liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but... | |
| United States. Continental Congress - Constitutional history - 1904 - 212 pages
...times of the year, and pursuant to a form and manner prescribed by law. There is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers." "Military men belong to a profession, which may be useful, but is often dangerous." — "The enjoyment... | |
| Joseph Nimmo (Jr.) - Railroads - 1905 - 40 pages
...and by Judge Story, all of whom adopted the opinion of Montesquieu that "there is no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers." By fully adopting this view the United States became the only nation on the globe in which the "judicial... | |
| Law - 1903 - 732 pages
...distinct from both the Legislature and the executive. For I agree that 'there it no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.' " With this view of the judiciary, and for the purpose of stimulating the spirit of independence, the... | |
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