 When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical...  The Spirit of Laws: Volume I - Page 222by Montesquieu - 1766Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1783 - 304 pages
...- " Chapter chapter of the Conftitution of England, had thefe remarkable words upon the fubjeft : " Again, there is no liberty, if the judiciary power...with the legiflative, the life and liberty of the fubjeft would be expofed to arbitrary controul ; for the judge would be then the legiflator. Were it... | |
 | Parliament proc - 1783 - 308 pages
...can be no liberty ; becauffc apprehenfions may ari'fe, left the \ fame monarch or fenate fhould enaft tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner....there is no liberty, if the judiciary power be not Separated from the legiflative and executive. Were it joined with the legiflative, the life and liberty... | |
 | Mathew Carey - 1789 - 632 pages
...there «an be no liberty, becaufe apprehenISons may arife, led the fame monarch or fenate mould enaft tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner." Again, " there is no liberty, if the powerof judging be not feparated from the legiflative and executive powers. Were it joined with the... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...there can be no liberty; becaufe apprehenfions may arife, left the fame monarch or fenate mould enaft tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. Again, there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not feparatcd from the legiflative :md executive powers. Were it joined with the... | |
 | John Adams - Constitutional history - 1794 - 452 pages
...may arife, left the fame monarch or , or the fame fenate, fhould enact tyran"' .... . •. . _ nical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner, Again ; there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not feparated from the legiflatiye and executive powers : were it joined with the... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1810 - 538 pages
...because ap" prehensions may arise, lest the same " monarch or senate, or the same senate, " should enact tyrannical laws, to execute " them in a tyrannical manner. Again, " there is no Liberty, if the power of "judging be not separated from the legis" lative and executive powers; were it "joined with... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1814 - 742 pages
...magistrates, there can be no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical...there is no liberty, if the judiciary power be not separated from the legislative and executive. Were it joined with'the legislative, the life and liberty... | |
 | John Tappen - Forms (Law) - 1816 - 392 pages
...there can be no liberty; became apprehensions may arise, "lest the same monarch or senate should taact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. Again, there is no liberty, if the power of judging be separated from the legislative and executive powers. Were it joined with the legislative,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1810 - 538 pages
...because ap" prehensions may arise, lest the same " monarch or senate, or the same senate, " should enact tyrannical laws, to execute " them in a tyrannical manner. Again, " there is no Liberty, if the power of "judging be not separated from the legis" lative and executive powers; were it "joined with... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 566 pages
...magistrates, there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical...there is no liberty, if the judiciary power be not separated from the legislative and executive. Were it joined with the legislative, the life and liberty... | |
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