An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on free principles but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend... Eloquence of the United States - Página 1341827Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| James Daniel Lynch - 1881 - 570 páginas
...be so divided and balanced among the several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend its legal limits without being effectually checked and...specified and defined, as altogether abortive and as forming strong proof of the regal maxim, that man is incapable of self-government. If honorable gentlemen... | |
| Horace Davis - 1884 - 100 páginas
...free principles, but in which the powers of the government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy as that no one could...effectually checked and restrained by the others." I cannot better close this part of my subject than by quoting the incisive words of Bancroft, speaking... | |
| Samuel Jones Tilden - 1885 - 852 páginas
...only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided among several bodies of magistracy as that no one could...effectually checked and restrained by the others." In violation of these principles, Congress has stripped the President of his constitutional powers... | |
| Johns Hopkins University - 1885 - 606 páginas
...free principles, but in which the powers of the government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy as that no one could...transcend their legal limits without being effectually cheeked and restrained by the others." I cannot better close this part of my subject than by quoting... | |
| James Madison, John Jay - 1888 - 676 páginas
...founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could...effectually checked and restrained by the others. For this reason, that convention which passed the ordinance of government, laid its foundation on this... | |
| Joseph Story - 1891 - 858 páginas
...which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, aa that no one could transcend their legal limits without...effectually checked and restrained by the others." Yet Virginia lived voluntarily nnder this constitution more than fifty years (see 2 Titkin's HUt. 298,... | |
| Joseph Story - 1891 - 852 páginas
...founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal hmits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others." Yet Virginia lived voluntarily... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 634 páginas
...founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could...effectually checked and restrained by the others. For this reason that convention, which passed the ordinance of government, [215] laid its foundation... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison - 1894 - 980 páginas
...on free principles, but in which the powers of government should 1>e so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could...effectually checked and restrained by the others. For this reason, that Convention which passed the ordinance of Government, laid its foundation on this... | |
| United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - 1897 - 800 páginas
...founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy as that no one could...effectually checked and restrained by the others. For this reason that convention which passed the ordinance of government laid its foundation on this... | |
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