...Turkey. If powers are ever fused in England, political freedom will be lost. As Montesquieu remarked, "when the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty." According to Hume, too, "the government,...

...Papers, the Constitution John Jay most likely would not have been ratified. Federalist Paper No. 47: When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body, there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact...

...sentences. " When the legislative and executive powers," he said,1 " are united in the same persons or body, there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may...monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to enforce them in a tyrannical manner. . . . Were the power of judging joined with the legislature, the...

...in all corners of the globe. His words remain as true today as when he wrote them. Said Montesquieu: When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body, there can be no liberty, because apprehension might arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact...

...which Montesquieu was guided, it may clearly be inferred that in saying "There can be no liberty where 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,"...

...the separation of governmental powers as a fundamental principle of our modern political science. " When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body," says Montesquieu, " there can be 1 See post, page 76. 2 Locke on Civil Government, chap, xii; La Separation...

...Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws (1748), trans. Thomas Nugent (New York: Hafner, 1949), 9.6,151. "When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty." 7. Plato, Republic, 7.5206-521^ 8. Aristotle,...

...definitions still form imperatives to which our modern institutions listen. They also hear these admonitions: When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistracy, there can be then no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest...

...le meme monarque, ou le meme Senat ne fasse des loix tyranniques, pour les executer tyranniquement." "When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same corps, there can be no liberty. Because, it may be feared, that the same monarch or senate...

...not separated from the legislative and execotive powers." [T]he reason, tersely given, is, "hecause apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execote them in a tyrannical manner . . ." Id. at 341. The Taylor Court then proceeded to affirm the...