All the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating these in the same hands, is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation, that these powers will be exercised... The North American Review - Strana 3261826Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
| California. Legislature. Senate - 1874 - Počet stránok 1206
...seventeen hundred and eighty-one, commenting upon a defect of the (then) Constitution of Virginia, said: "All the powers of government, legislative, executive,...alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. An elective despotism was not the government we fought... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1940 - Počet stránok 366
...Hamilton, page 385. The quotation is from Madison, who quotes Jefferson's Notes on Virginia, stating: All the powers of government— legislative, executive,...result to the legislative body. The concentrating of these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1971 - Počet stránok 662
...despotism merely underscored that under the Virginia government, to which his words were directed: "All the powers of government, legislative, executive,...result to the legislative body. The concentrating thrse in the same hands is precisely the definition of dcspouc government." Kramer & Marcuse 905 n.801.... | |
| Alexander Hamilton - 1977 - Počet stránok 678
...now guide him as the official head of a great party in the United States. It is in these words — "All the powers of government, legislative, executive...alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1977 - Počet stránok 762
...JEFFERSON 162-165 (B. Lipscomb-Bergh ed. 1903). (Vol. 51:187] THE WAR POWERS RESOLUTION TESTED He said : "It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1977 - Počet stránok 544
...JEFFERSON 162-165 (B. Lipscomb-Bergh ed. 1903). [Vol. 51:187] THE WAR POWERS RESOLUTION TESTED He said: "It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be... | |
| Walter Lippmann - Počet stránok 212
...II, pp. 162-163 (the writer is surveying what he terms the "capital defects of the constitution") : "All the powers of government, legislative, executive,...alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be... | |
| Stephen L. Schechter - 1990 - Počet stránok 478
...skilled in the laws.9 7 Compare the comment of Thomas Jefferson on the Virginia Constitution of 1776: All the powers of government, legislative, executive,...alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. 173 despots will surely be as oppressive as one. Thomas... | |
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