...encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government,...despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and prorrencss to fibnse it, which predominates in the humaadlRtrt, is sufficient to satisfy us of the...

...Washington, urging on the people of the United States " the necessity of reciprocal checks in the §xerelse of political power, by dividing and distributing it...constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasion by the others. The consolidation of these powers in one," says Washington, at once the General,...

...encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of Government,...the guardian of the public weal, against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments, ancient and modern ; some of them in our own country,...

...encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tend* to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government,...that love of power and proneness to abuse it which predominate in the human heart, Is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity...

...encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government,...that love of power and proneness to abuse it which predominate in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity...

...spirit of encroachment 3 consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, er the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love er and proneness to abuse it which predominate in the human heart, is it to satisfy us of the truth...

...carrier for strong passions inevitably raging in the human mind. Nothing should keep the nation from "a just estimate of that love of power, and proneness...abuse it, which predominates in the human heart." Washington's admonition about human nature brought an appropriate corollary, one which was not forgotten...

...encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one. and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real depotism. "If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional...

...encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one. and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real depotism. "If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional...

...amendment, not masked by euphemisms. (189) For me Washington's advice remains the polestar. "The necesity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political...constituting each the Guardian of the Public Weal against invasion by the others, has been evinced. ... To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute...