 | Historical miscellany - 1774 - 352 pages
...liberty, it is requifite the government be fo conftituted as one man need not be afraid of another. Again, there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not Separated from the legiflative and executive powers. Were it joined with the legiflative, the life and liberty of the... | |
 | Christopher Keld - 1785 - 552 pages
...Thoughts on the Eaft India BiU t by one of the People. Neverthelefs, it may perhaps be con. ceived, that' there is no liberty, if the power of judging be * not feparated from the legiflative; that, were it joined * with the legiflative, the life and liberty of... | |
 | John Dickinson - 1801 - 450 pages
...body of the people, at certain times of the year, and pursuant to a form and manner pescribed by law. There is no liberty, if the power of judging be not...separated from the legislative and executive powers." . f " MILITARY men belong to a profession, which may be useful, but is often dangerous." " The enjoyment... | |
 | 1814 - 390 pages
...the same monarch or senate should enact tyranical laws, to execute them in a tyranica) manner. Again, there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not...separated from the legislative and executive powers. Were it joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the subject would be exposed to arbitrary... | |
 | Dartmouth College, Timothy Farrar - 1819 - 424 pages
...where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistracy :" or, "if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers"(l). Mr. Madison, speaking of this principle, says, " no political truth is certainly of greater... | |
 | John Taylor - 1823 - 332 pages
...judiciary had a power to decide controversies betwccu the federal and state departments, observes, No. 78, "I agree «that there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not sepa" rated from tho legislative and executive powers." Without estimating the consequences of our... | |
 | Tracts - 1836 - 506 pages
...monarch, or senate, should enact tyrannical laws, or execute them in a tyrannical manner. " Again, there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not...separated from the legislative and executive powers. Were it joined with the legislative, there the life and liberty of the subjectwould be exposed to arbitrary... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1850 - 688 pages
...the judicial power, consists one main preservative of public liberty. 1 Bl. Com. 269. That, indeed, there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not...separated from the legislative and executive powers. Montesquieu, I. 11, ch. 6. In other words, that the union of these two powers is tyranny. 7 Johns.... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1851 - 904 pages
...formation of the Constitution are further illustrated by these additional comments from the same source.* " As liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have every thing to fear from its union with either of the other departments; as all the effects of such... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - 1852 - 435 pages
...judicial power consists one main preservative of the public liberty" (1 Bl. Com. 269) ; that, indeed, "there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not...separated from the legislative and executive powers." (Montesquieu, B. 11. Ch. 6.) In other words, that "the union of these two powers is tyranny" (7 Johnson... | |
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there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.' And it proves, in the last place, that as liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its... 
