 A legislative, an executive, and a judicial power comprehend the whole of what is meant and understood by government. It is by balancing each of these powers against the other two, that the efforts in human nature towards tyranny can alone be checked...  The Works of Charles Sumner - Page 93by Charles Sumner - 1883Full view - About this book
 | William Cranch - 1827 - 140 pages
...executive, and a judicial power, comprehend the whole of what is meant and undetv stood by government. It is by balancing each of these powers against the other two, that the effort of human nature towards tyranny can alone be checked and restrained, and any degree of freedom... | |
 | George Washington - 1834 - 574 pages
...executive, and judicial power comprehends the whole of what is meant and understood by government. It is by balancing each of these powers against the other two, that the effort in human nature towards tyranny can alone be checked and restrained, and any degree of freedom... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 574 pages
...executive, and judicial power comprehends the whole of what is meant and understood by government. It is by balancing each of these powers against the other two, that the effort in human nature towards tyranny can alone be checked and restrained, and any degree of freedom... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 574 pages
...executive, and judicial power comprehends the whole of what is meant and understood by government. It is by balancing each of these powers against the other two, that the effort in human nature towards tyranny can alone be checked and restrained, and any degree of freedom... | |
 | Henry Wikoff - 1874 - 434 pages
...Governor." Here were the three elements, but he displayed rare sagacity in the following comments : — " It is by balancing each of these powers against the other two that the effort in human nature towards tyranny can alone be checked and restrained, and any degree of freedom... | |
 | Henry Wikoff - 1875 - 488 pages
...following comments : — " It is by balancing each of these powers against the other two that the effort in human nature towards tyranny can alone be checked...and restrained, and any degree of freedom preserved iu the Constitution." • The Federal fabric of 1 787 not only brought the three elements together,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1883 - 426 pages
...legislative, and judicial, — each independent and coequal. From Mr. Madison, in " The Federalist," we learn that the accumulation of these powers " in the same...division a power to defend itself by a negative." 8 In other words, each is armed against invasion by the others. Accordingly, the Constitution of Virginia,... | |
 | Brooks Adams - 1886 - 398 pages
...executive, and a judicial power comprehend the whole of what is meant and understood by government. It is by balancing each of these powers against the...degree of freedom preserved in the constitution." l His next tract, written in 1776 at the request of Wythe of Virginia, was printed and widely circulated,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 484 pages
...legislative, and judicial, — each independent and coequal. From Mr. Madison, in " The Federalist," we learn that the accumulation of these powers " in the same...division a power to defend itself by a negative." 8 In other words, each is armed against invasion by the others. Accordingly, the Constitution of Virginia,... | |
 | Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer - 1900 - 454 pages
...185-187. 10Cf. Rousseau's introduction to his Control Social alluded to in this chapter, ante, p. 2. checked and restrained, and any degree of freedom preserved in the constitution." The legislature, he said, should consist of a " house of commons ", which would represent the people,... | |
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