 | Nebraska State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1912 - 140 pages
...greatest bulwark of a free people — an independent judiciary? So early a writer as Montesquieu declared that : "There is no liberty if the power of judging...separated from the legislative and executive powers. If it were joined to the legislative power, authority over the life and liberty of citizens would be... | |
 | United States - 1913 - 1030 pages
...same opinion was Montesquieu, who gave the high authority of the Esprit des IJois to the declaration that — There is no liberty if the power of judging be not separate from the legislative and executive powers; were it joined with the legislative the life and... | |
 | Texas Bar Association - Bar associations - 1913 - 330 pages
...separate and distinct. They deemed this to be essential to liberty. Hamilton said : ' ' For I agree that there is no liberty if the power of judging be not separate from the legislative and executive powers." Mercer said: "It is an axiom that the judiciary... | |
 | Elihu Root - Constitutional law - 1913 - 156 pages
...same opinion was Montesquieu who gave the high authority of the Esprit des Lois to the declaration that "There is no liberty if the power of judging be not separate from the legislative and executive powers; were it joined with the legislative the life and... | |
 | Elihu Root - Constitutional law - 1913 - 104 pages
...same opinion was Montesquieu who gave the high authority of the Esprit des Lois to the declaration that \ "There is no liberty if the power of judging be not separate from the legislative and executive powers; were it joined with the legislative the life and... | |
 | James Parker Hall - Constitutional law - 1914 - 528 pages
...judicial power consists one main preservative of the public liberty" (Bl. Com. 269) ; that, indeed, "there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not...separated from the legislative and executive powers" (Montesquieu, B. 11, Ch. 6). In other words that "the union of these two powers is tyranny" (7 Johns.... | |
 | William Bennett Munro - Constitutional history - 1914 - 220 pages
...where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates," or, "if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers," he did not mean that these departments ought to have no partial agency in, or no control over, the... | |
 | Reinhold Klotz - German language - 1915 - 726 pages
...keep the latter within the limits assigned to their authority."* And, quoting Montesquieu, he says: "There is no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.4 It is obvious, from a careful perusal of Elliott's Debates as well as from the Federalist,... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1915 - 1098 pages
...executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates; ' or, quoting him again, ' If the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers,' he did not mean that these departments ought to have no partial agency in, or no control over the acts... | |
 | Elihu Root - Citizenship - 1916 - 574 pages
...same opinion was Montesquieu who gave the high authority of the Esprit des lois to the declaration that There is no liberty if the power of judging be not separate from the legislative and executive powers; were it joined with the legislative the life and... | |
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there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers. 
