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" 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. "
The Federalist: On the New Constitution - Page 216
by James Madison, John Jay - 1826 - 582 pages
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Proceedings and Debates of the Virginia State Convention of ..., Pages 94-830

Virginia. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1890 - 928 pages
...written by Mr. Madison, and read aa follows: " No political truth is of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection a founded . The accumulation of all powers, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, in the same hands,...
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The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Comprising His Correspondence ..., Volume 7

Alexander Hamilton - 1851 - 946 pages
...ought to be separate and distinct. No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons...the objection is founded. The accumulation of all power, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many ; whether...
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The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Political essays [etc., 1792-1804] Contents ...

Alexander Hamilton - Finance - 1851 - 904 pages
...ought to be separate and distinct. No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons...the objection is founded. The accumulation of all power, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many ; whether...
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Commentaries on Universal Public Law

George Bowyer - Jurisprudence - 1854 - 424 pages
...that the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judicial, in the same hands, whether one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."' We have now to consider how the three divided departments of government, or the division and distribution...
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Scrap Book on Law and Politics, Men and Times

George Robertson - Kentucky - 1855 - 422 pages
...limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others." Mr. Madison admonishes us that "the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." He notifies us also, that "the legislative department is every where extending the sphere of its activity,...
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The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the ..., Volume 1

Henry Barton Dawson - Constitutional law - 1863 - 770 pages
...disproportionate weight of other parts. No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons...pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Were the Foederal Constitution, therefore, really chargeable with this accumulation of power, or with a mixture...
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The Federalist: a Collection of Essays Written in Favor of the New ..., Volume 1

United States - 1864 - 786 pages
...disproportionate weight of other parts. No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons...pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Were the Fcederal Constitution, therefore, really chargeable with this accumulation of power, or with a mixture...
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The Fœderalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the ..., Volume 1

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1864 - 772 pages
...disproportionate weight of other parts. No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons...pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Were the Foederal Constitution, therefore, really chargeable with this accumulation of power, or with a mixture...
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Federalist: a Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the New Constitution ...

1865 - 696 pages
...disproportionate weight of other parts. No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons...pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Were the Foederal Constitution, therefore, really chargeable with this accumulation of power, or with a mixture...
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The Constitutional Convention: Its History, Powers, and Modes of Proceeding

John Alexander Jameson - Political Science - 1867 - 594 pages
...of whom had united in the sentiment forcibly expressed by the authors of the " Federalist," " that the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may be justly pronounced the very definition of tyranny;" that, clothed with such powers, the Convention...
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