The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the... LINDSAY TODD DAMON, A. B. - Σελίδα 44των The Lake English Classics WASHINGTON WEBSTER AND LINCOLN - 1910Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1850 - 318 σελίδες
...encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government,...the guardian of the public weal, against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern : some of them in our own country,... | |
| William Hickey - 1851 - 580 σελίδες
...encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of Government,...the guardian of the public weal, against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments, ancient and modern ; some of them in our own country,... | |
| William Hickey - 1851 - 588 σελίδες
...encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of Government,...dividing and distributing it into different depositories, aricTconstituting each the guardian of the public weal, against invasions by the others, has been evinced... | |
| Indiana - 1851 - 720 σελίδες
...upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments into one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate ofthat love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient... | |
| William Hickey - 1852 - 586 σελίδες
...encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of Government,...in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of tho truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power,... | |
| George Washington - 1852 - 76 σελίδες
...fonnte. upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government,...that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominate in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity... | |
| Lewis C. Munn - 1853 - 450 σελίδες
...encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government,...the guardian of the public weal, against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments, ancient and modern, — some of them in our own country,... | |
| Joseph Bartlett Burleigh - 1853 - 354 σελίδες
...whatever [the form of government, a real]65 despotism. — A just estimate of that love of power, and [66] proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human...constituting each the Guardian of the Public Weal [against]07 invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern ; some of them... | |
| Flavel Scott Mines - 1853 - 616 σελίδες
...we may crown them with the farewell words of Washington, urging on the people of the United States " the necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise...constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasion by the others. The consolidation of these powers in one," says Washington, at once the General,... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1853 - 466 σελίδες
...real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominate in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of...of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political pow er, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian... | |
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