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" The accumulation of all powers, Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary, in the same hands, 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: On the New Constitution - Page 216
by James Madison, John Jay - 1826 - 582 lehte
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Executive Orders: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rules. Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process - 2000 - 176 lehte
...completely bypassing the Congress. This was best stated by James Madison in Federalist Paper No. 46 that, The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." For "Many believe that AHRI clearly violates the doctrine of separation of powers as intended by our...
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Democratic Devices and Desires

Geoffrey Brennan, Alan Hamlin - 2000 - 282 lehte
...it is that a larger number of parties will help the system work better. 11 The separation of powers The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. (Federalist papers, 47, James Madison) Separations and divisions of power In the last three chapters...
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Transitional Justice

Ruti G. Teitel - 2000 - 304 lehte
...The Federalist No. 47, ed. Clinton Rossiter (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1961), 301 ("the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very def1nition of tyranny"). 65. At the time of the Articles of Confederation (1791), distrust of centralized...
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The Liberal Tradition in Focus: Problems and New Perspectives

João Carlos Espada, Marc F. Plattner, Adam Wolfson - 2000 - 184 lehte
...certainly not a direct democracy. As he said (and he was not the only American of his time to say it), "the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elected, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."3 Plainly, he and his fellow framers...
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Constitution: The Story of the Nation's Descent from a Constitutional ...

Eugene Schroder, Micki Nellis - 2000 - 254 lehte
...the constitution. What is a Tyranny? Madison had defined a tyranny in the Federalist Papers XLVII: "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 Supreme...
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A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War

Harry V. Jaffa - 2004 - 574 lehte
...forty-seventh Federalist, Madison asserts that "No political truth is ... of greater intrinsic value" than that "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very...
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Federalism, the Supreme Court, and the Seventeenth Amendment: The Irony of ...

Ralph A. Rossum - 2001 - 324 lehte
...realize this objective; separation of powers and checks and balances were another. They were aware that "the accumulation of all powers legislative, executive,...justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny," and therefore that "the preservation of liberty requires that the three great departments of power...
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Myths in Stone: Religious Dimensions of Washington, D.C., 3. osa

Jeffrey F. Meyer - 2001 - 382 lehte
...that to the extent it coalesced in any one party liberty would be lost. Madison said in Federalist 47: "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."27 It was a delicate balance Madison sought, as he said categorically: "Every word of [the...
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Property Rights: From Magna Carta to the Fourteenth Amendment

Bernard H. Siegan - 356 lehte
...enlightened patrons of liberty. . . ,"75 He clearly looked down upon the non-separation of powers: "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."76 Under the proposed division of government, power was to be distributed to prevent any individual,...
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Does Congress Delegate Too Much Power to Agencies and what Should be Done ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs - 2001 - 464 lehte
...by the Constitution. Mr. Chairman, over two hundred years ago, James Madison wrote in Federalist 47, "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." If we are not...
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