...the causes of individuals." And The Federalist haa with equal point and brevity remarked, that "the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive...whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may be justly pronounced the very definition of tyranny." The general reasoning...

...this all -eclipsing power or force is concentrated in one head or department, we have tyranny. "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny:'" (1) Revised...

...rights and liberties of the people. Madison (sometimes called the father of the Constitution) said: 'The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.' And Jefferson...

...(viz., that the constitution of 1788 united various sorts of powers in the same person) is founded; the accumulation of all powers legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one or few or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very...

...530, 531, 67 L. ed. 1361, 1362, 53 S. Ct. 740)." In the Federal Papers, James Madison said — "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." In his Spirit...

...problem as the tyranny to be avoided if the declared ends of a liberal regime were to be secured. "The accumulation of all powers legislative, executive...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." (Fed. 47) The concentration of power in a democracy potentially posed the same problem as a monarchy....

...SL. 9. In The Federalist no. 47, 324, Madison expresses the Montesquieuean idea very clearly: "The d, by those whose love of justice had not been 1 0. The Montesquieuean separation is thus particularly aimed at taming the executive. See Harvey C....

...the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers legislative, executive...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Were the federal constitution therefore really chargeable with this accumulation of power or with a...

...the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Were the federal...

...the dangers of unlimited majority rule and of any other unlimited form of government as well. "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." The Federalist...