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. Scrap Book on Law and Politics, Men and Times - 第 132 頁George Robertson 著 - 1855 - 404 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
| 1915 - 538 頁
...edifice to the danger of being crushed by the disproportionate weight of other parts." He goes on to say that "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands .... may be pronounced the very definition of tyranny"; but he then undertakes an elaborate argument... | |
| 1915 - 536 頁
...edifice to the danger of being crushed by the disproportionate weight of other parts." He goes on to say that "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands .... may be pronounced the very definition of tyranny"; but he then undertakes an elaborate argument... | |
| ARTHUR N. HOLCOMBE - 1919 - 572 頁
...belief that tyranny became possible only when these three kinds of powers were joined in the same hands. "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive...whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective," wrote Madison, "may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." 3 This belief is clearly... | |
| Harvard University. Department of Government - 1917 - 166 頁
...accumulation of National .,fe b . . ,. . , Government, all powers, legislative, executive and judicial, in the same hands, whether of one, a few or many, and whether self -hereditary, self-appointed or elected " was regarded, in the words of Alexander Hamilton, as... | |
| John Downey Works - 1919 - 216 頁
...aristocrats of a Venetian senate. Alexander Hamilton in The Federalist had this to say on the same subject : The accumulation of all powers, Legislative, Executive...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Were the Federal Constitution, therefore, really chargeable with this accumulation of power, or with... | |
| William Bennett Munro - 1919 - 680 頁
...1787 accepted it as gospel. "No political truth," wrote Madison, "is of greater intrinsic value. . . . The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." 2 Hence, while no express statement of Montesquieu's principle was incorporated in the' national constitution,... | |
| Charles Ghequiere Fenwick - 1920 - 360 頁
...into question. Few, indeed, of those who still had faith in it would go so far as to say with Madison that " the accumulation of all powers, legislative,...judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or of many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition... | |
| Charles Ghequiere Fenwick - 1920 - 352 頁
...of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or of many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." * It was generally recognized that popular control over the government could be rendered sufficiently... | |
| Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - 1921 - 712 頁
...accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judicial, in the same hands," wrote Madison, " whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." The devices which the convention adopted to prevent such a centralization of authority were exceedingly... | |
| William Henry Hudson, Irwin Scofield Guernsey - 1922 - 778 頁
..." that the three departments of government " ought to be separate and distinct," Madison wrote : " The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive...and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, the few or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed or elected, may justly be pronounced the very... | |
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