 All the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised...  Political Science Quarterly - Page 341902Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 756 pages
...these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality...seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one. Let those who doubt it turn their eyes on the republic of Venice. As little will it avail us that they... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1817 - 570 pages
...precisely the difini"tion of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that " these powers will^be exercised by a plurality of hands, and «' not by...one. One hundred and seventy-three despots, " would shurely be as oppressive as one. Let those who doubt "it, turn their eyes on the republic of Venice.... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1826 - 736 pages
...government. It will be no alleviation " that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, " aiid not by a single one. One hundred and seventy-three " despots would surely be as oppressive as one. Let those " who doubt it, turn their eyes on the republic of Venice. As " little will it avail us,... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 552 pages
...of government in the legislative body is of the very essence of despotism ; and it is no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. ' An elective despotism was not the government we fought for ; but one which should not only be founded... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...fortify them, he cites a most instructive passage from Mr. Jefferson's Notes orr Virginia; who says, "one hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one;" and maintains, that we fought for a government which "should not only be founded' on free principles,... | |
 | Virginia. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1830 - 932 pages
...in the same hanils, is precisely the definition of despotic Government. It will be no alleviation , that these powers will be exercised by a plurality...seventy-three Despots, would surely be as oppressive as one." H. here called the attention of the Committee to the 40th No. of the same work, written by the some... | |
 | Virginia. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1890 - 928 pages
...in tlte same hands, is precisely the definition of despotic Government. It will be no alleviation, that these powers will be exercised by a plurality...hundred and seventy-three Despots, would surely be as oppressite 03 one." Again: Mr. H. read, "They, (meaning the Legislature,) have, accordingly, in many... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Tobacco - 1832 - 296 pages
...these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will' be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. 173 despots would surely be as oppressive as one. Let those who doubt it turn their eyes on the republic... | |
 | William M. Holland - Presidents - 1835 - 374 pages
...these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality...seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one. Let those who doubt it turn their eyes on the republic of Venice. As little will it avail us that they... | |
 | William M. Holland - Presidents - 1835 - 390 pages
...the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercis?:! by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one....seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one. Let those who doubt it turn their eyes on the republic of Venice. As little will it avail us that they... | |
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