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Page 211 - must allow to the national legislature that discretion with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform, the high duties assigned to it in a manner most beneficial to the people. Let the end be legitimate, let it
Page 16 - In the government of this commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them : the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them : to the end that it may be a government of laws and not
Page 311 - upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. ... A fire not to be quenched ; it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume." "Farewell Address
Page 46 - is of greater intrinsic value. . . . The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
Page 211 - by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform, the high duties assigned to it in a manner most beneficial to the people. Let the end be legitimate, let it
Page 46 - In every government there are three sorts of power : the legislative, the executive. . . . and the judiciary power. . . . When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty. . . . Again, there is no liberty, if the judiciary power be not separated from the legislative and executive." Montesquieu's doctrine was widely accepted by
Page 281 - not patented or described in any printed publication in this or any foreign country prior to the invention and not in public use or on sale in the United States for more than, two years prior to the application.
Page 72 - all children born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, whose fathers were or may be at the time of their birth citizens thereof, are declared to be citizens of the United States ; but the rights of
Page 398 - though a law be fair on its face and impartial in appearance, yet, if it is applied and administered by public authority with an evil eye and unequal hand so as practically to make unjust and illegal discriminations between persons in similar circumstances, material to their rights, the denial of equal justice is still within the prohibition of the constitution.
Page 290 - which hears before it condemns, which proceeds upon enquiry, and renders judgment only after trial. The meaning is that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property and immunities under the protection of the general rules which govern society.