| Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 388 páginas
...chosen by ourselves. An elective despotism was not the government <ve fought for; but one which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which...transcend their legal limits, without being effectually, cheqked and restrained by the others. For this reason that convention, which passed the ordinance of... | |
| United States. Congress. House - 756 páginas
...chosen by ourselves. An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which...both the letter and spirit of the Constitution will be violated. One of the three massive columns on which the whole superstructure rests will be broken... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1817 - 570 páginas
...ourselves. An elective despot*'• ism was not the government we fought for ; but one which " should not only be founded on free principles, but in which...legal limits, without being effectually checked and re" strained by the others. For this reason, that convention which " passed the ordinance of government,... | |
| James Madison, John Jay - 1818 - 882 páginas
...sen by ourselves. 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 ba" lanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no " one could transcend their legal limits,... | |
| 1826 - 558 páginas
...chosen by ourselves. An elective despotism was not the government we fought for ; but one which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which...legal limits, without being effectually checked and restrained by the others. For this reason that convention, which passed the ordinance of government,... | |
| Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1826 - 538 páginas
...chosen by ourselves. An elective despotism was not the government we fought for ; but one which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which...legal limits, without being effectually checked and restrained by the others. For this reason that convention, which passed the ordinance of government,... | |
| James Madison, John Jay - 1826 - 736 páginas
...by ourselves. An " elective dcqwtiim was not the government we fought for ; but " one which should not only be founded on free principles, but " in which...legal limits, without being effectually " checked, and restrained by the others. For this reason, that " convention which passed the ordinance of government,... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1827 - 674 páginas
...would surely be as oppressive as one;" and maintains, that we fought for a government which "should not only be founded' on free principles, but in which...among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one should transcend their legal limits, without being effectually checked and restrained by the others."... | |
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