 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 - Page 216by Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1750Full view - About this book
 | Historical miscellany - 1774 - 352 pages
...can be no liberty ; becaufe apprehenfions may arife, left the fame monarch or fen.ite fhould enaQ: tyrannical laws, to execute them in a, tyrannical...with the legiflative, the life and liberty of the fubject: would be expofed to arbitrary controul ; for the judge would be then the legiflator. Were... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1783 - 304 pages
...there can be no liberty ; bccaufe apprehenfions may arife, left the fame monarch or fenate fhould enaft tyrannical laws^ to execute them in a tyrannical manner. " Again, there is no liberty, if the judiciary power be not feparated from the legiflative and executive. Were it joined with the legiflative,... | |
 | 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 arift, left the fame monarch or fenateihouldenaft tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner....if the power of judging be not feparated from the legiilative and executive powers. Were it joined with the legiilative, the life and liberty of the... | |
 | 1796 - 784 pages
...liberty can exill, if the judiciary power be not feparated from the legiilative and the executive. Were it joined with the legiflative, the life and liberty of the " lubjcet would be expofed to arbitrary controul : for the judge would be then the legiflator. Were... | |
 | John Adams - Constitutional history - 1797 - 448 pages
...becaufe apprehenfions may arife, left the fame monarch or fenate, or the fame fen ate fliould enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner....if the power of judging be not feparated from the legiftative and executive powers : were it joined with the legiflative, the life and liberty of the... | |
 | English literature - 1797 - 680 pages
...appreherfions шау arife, left the famemonarch or fenate fliodd cn.id tyrannical laws, to execute them ш a tyrannical manner. Again, there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not feparated from the ltgiilative and executive powers. Were it joined with the legiilative, the life and liberty of the... | |
 | abbé Barruel - France - 1797 - 894 pages
...affert, that " there " h no liberty, if the power of judging be not " feparaced from the Legislative and Executive " Powers ! Were it joined with the Legiflative, " the life and liberty of the fubject would be ex" pofed to arbitrary control, for the Judge would " then be the Legislator. Were... | |
 | abbé Barruel - France - 1798 - 486 pages
...then have been foi •the people to hear Montefquieu aflert, that " there * See Joinville's Memoirs. K is no liberty, if the power of judging be not " feparated...Legiflative, " the life and liberty of the fubjecl: would be ex" pofed to arbitrary control, for the Judge would " then be the Legiflator. Were it joined to the... | |
 | abbé Barruel - France - 1799 - 292 pages
...muft it then have been for the people to hear Montefquieu affert, that " there is no liber-> " ty, if the power of judging be not feparated from " the...with the Legiflative, the life and liberty of the fuje& " would be expofed to arbitrary control, for the Judge " would then be the Legiflator. Were it... | |
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