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
| Walter Lippmann - 212 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." In a modern democratic state, the chief executive office must be elective. But as heredity, prescription,... | |
| 1990 - 540 páginas
...which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistry, as that no one could transcend their legal limits,...effectually checked and restrained by the others. For this reason that convention which passed the ordinance of government, laid its foundation on this... | |
| Robert A. Licht - 1993 - 224 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. 4 From what quarter, then, was the drive toward consolidation likely to originate? Publius minced no... | |
| Jefferson Powell - 1993 - 320 páginas
...we fought for, but one ... in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could...without being effectually checked and restrained by the others."52 Writing a few years later about the federal legislature, Jefferson equated a constitutional... | |
| Milton Hindus - 180 páginas
...founded in 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. Why should such a complex mechanism be necessary? It is because government itself was regarded by the... | |
| Anthony Arblaster - 1994 - 142 páginas
...which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies or magistracies, as that no one could transcend their legal limits,...without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.'6 What he and his colleagues were aiming at was not democracy, popular government, but limited... | |
| William Quirk, R. Randall Bridwell - 1995 - 162 páginas
...wrote in Notes on Virginia, that 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." The division of governmental power was critical to the Founders; Jefferson said an "elective despotism... | |
| Martin H. Redish - 1995 - 240 páginas
...principles, but in which the powers of government would be so divided and balanced among several bodies . . . that no one could transcend their legal limits, without...effectually checked and restrained by the others." Thomas Jefferson, "Notes on the State of Virginia," Query 133 (1784), in 1 Founders' Constitution,... | |
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