...power: the legislative, the executive and the judiciary power', and who had gone on to declare that: 'When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty'.1 The idea was, of course, not new; indeed,...

...and the power of executing them, are united in the same person, or in the same body of Magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may...tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner." "The power of judging should be exercised by persons taken from the body of the people, at certain...

...separation of powers is not possible. He construes Montesquieu's maxims that "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"...

...to the doctrine of the separation of powers as formulated by Montesquieu in his Spirit of the Laws. "When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates," Montesquieu wrote, "there can be no liberty."40 "Constant experience,"...

...elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."177 For, as Montesquieu explained, "When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the...

...which Montesquieu was guided it may clearly be inferred, that in saying "there can be no liberty where faith shall always be observed towards the Indians; their lands and proper of magistrates," or "if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers,"...

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...such a patronizing system where the executive and the legislative powers overlap. Montesquieu wrote: "when the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the...

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...also greatly influenced by the views of Montesquieu, the French lawyer and politician, who wrote that "when the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty."52 And throughout its deliberations, the...