...accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands, whether of one or a few or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. * * The preservation of liberty requires that the three great departments of power should be separate...

...judicial powers in the same hands. "No political truth," said he, "is of greater political value or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty than that on which this objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary in...

...persons; while free governments tend to division and separation of powers. In the words of Mr. Madison: "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." 1 1 The Federalist, No. 47. CHAPTER XXVI. THE COMPOSITION OF CONGRESS AND THE ELECTION OF ITS MEMBERS....

...persons; while free governments tend to division and separation of powers. In the words of Mr. Madison: " The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." 1 1 The Federalist,...

...persons; while free governments tend to division and separation of powers. In the words of Mr. Madison: "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."1 i The Federalist,...

...executive, and judiciary, in the same hands," says the "Federalist," in that momentous canvass of 1788, " whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may be justly pronounced the very definition of a tyranny."1 But the accumulation of Federal power under...

...persons; while free governments tend to division and separation of powers. In the words of Mr. Madison: " The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."1 1 The Federalist, No. 47. CHAPTER XXX THE COMPOSITION OF CONGRESS AND THE ELECTION OF ITS...

...making laws, and of carrying them *«No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. The oracle who is always consulted and cited on this subject is the celebrated Montesquieu.» — «...

...added his own statement that "the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judicial, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." * It is undoubtedly true that the doctrine of the separation of the various powers was a growth in...

...persons; while free governments tend to division and separation of powers. In the words of Mr. Madison: "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selt-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." 1 1 The Federalist,...