 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.  All Terrain Vehicle Safety: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Commerce ... - Page 188by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Competitiveness - 1988 - 397 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Douglas Ambrose, Robert W. T. Martin - 2006 - 311 pages
...see 56 (#10). 115. FP, 56 (#10). 116. FP, 59, 61 (#10). 117. See Publius (47, 313), who writes that "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 definition... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall, John J. Patrick - 2006 - 257 pages
...characteristic of a limited and free government. In the forty-seventh paper of The Federalist, he wrote, "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... | |
 | Nicholas Baldwin - 2006 - 332 pages
...intrinsic value or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that 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 definition... | |
 | Richard W. Bauman, Tsvi Kahana - 2006 - 553 pages
...avenues for the operation of checks on the exercise of government power"); see also Federalist No. 47 ("The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny"). 34 David Schoenbrod, Power Without... | |
 | InterLingua.com, Incorporated - 2006 - 361 pages
...efficiency of state government could be obstructed. Items 5 and 6 are based on the following passage. "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands... is the very definition of tyranny" — From Federalist 47 by James Madison 5. The fear expressed by... | |
 | Karen Fiala - 2006 - 450 pages
...who drafted the Constitution and who later became the fourth President of the United States, wrote: "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands... may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." (19) Politicians and Governments must realize... | |
 | James Brian Staab - 2006 - 416 pages
...greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty. . . . The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.2 Many of the framers, including Alexander... | |
 | Kermit Roosevelt - 2006 - 284 pages
...legislative and executive powers." In Federalist 47, James Madison put the point more strongly still: the "accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." That accumulation is what the Executive... | |
 | Joseph Margulies - 2007 - 354 pages
...to the Constitution, to the country, and to the rule of law. For centuries we have understood that " [t]he accumulation of all powers legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." " The president himself captured what... | |
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