| Elihu Root - 1916 - 574 pages
...not ignore the warning of Hamilton, in The Federalist. "For I agree," he says, quoting Montesquieu, "that ' there is no liberty, if the power of judging...separated from the legislative and executive powers.' * . . . The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution.... | |
| New York (State). Constitutional Convention - 1916 - 1130 pages
...executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates ; ' or, quoting him again, ' If the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers,' he did not mean that these departments ought to have no partial agency in, or no control over the acts... | |
| Hays - 1992 - 552 pages
...judiciary remains truly distinct from both the legislature and the executive. For I agree that “Ihere is no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.' ‘t And it proves, in the last place, that as liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary... | |
| Glenn Raymond Morrow - 1960 - 664 pages
...functions, and the lack of a separate and independent judiciary. "There is no liberty," says Montesquieu, "if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers."" But when Plato looks for persons especially qualified to administer justice, he invariably turns to... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1996 - 588 pages
...the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates,” or, “if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers,” he did not mean that these departments ought to have no partial agency in, or no control over, the... | |
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