 | Jean Louis de Lolme - 1784 - 564 pages
...legislative authority. But here we must observe a difference between the le^'alive and the executive powers. The latter may be confined, and even is the more easily...any thing more than simple resolutions : as those liars which it might erect to stop its own motions must then be within it, and rest upon it, they can... | |
 | Jean Louis de Lolme - 1814 - 326 pages
...legislative authority. But here we must observe a difference between the legislative and executive powers. The latter may be confined, and even is the more easily...stop its own motions, must then be within it, and rest upon it, they can be no bars. In a word, the same kind of impossibility is found, to fix the legislative... | |
 | Jean Louis de Lolme - 1816 - 602 pages
...here we must observe a difference between the legislative and the executive powers. The latter maybe confined, and even is the more easily so, when undivided...to stop its own motions must then be within it, and rest upon it, they can be no bars. In a word, the same kind of impossibility is found, to fix the legislative... | |
 | 1821 - 444 pages
...authority. But here we must observe a difference between the legislative and the executive powers. The latter may be confined, and even is the more easily...to stop its own motions must then be within it, and rest upon it, they can be no bars. In a word, the same kind of impossibility is found to fix the legislative... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 pages
...powers. The latter may be confined, and even is the more easily so, when undivided. The legislature on the contrary, in order to its being restrained, should absolutely be divided."8 § 1414. That unity is conducive to energy will scarcely be disputed. Decision, activity,... | |
 | Thomas George Western, Jean Louis de Lolme - 1838 - 628 pages
...authority. But here we must observe a difference between the legislative and the executive powers. The latter may be confined, and even is the more easily...it might erect to stop its own motions must then be 220 within it, and rest upon it, they can be no bars. In a word, the same kind of impossibility is... | |
 | Jean Louis de Lolme, Archibald John Stephens - 1838 - 674 pages
...po\vers. The latter may be confined, and even is the more easily so, when undivided: the legislature, on the contrary, in order to its being restrained,...restrain itself, they never can be, relatively to it, anything more than simple resolutions : as those bars which it might erect to stop its own motions... | |
 | Thomas George Western - 1840 - 610 pages
...authority. But here we must observe a difference between the legislative and the executive powers. The latter may be confined, and even is the more easily...to stop its own motions must then be within it, and rest upon it, they can be no bars. In a word, the same kind of impossibility is found, to fix the legislative... | |
 | Frederick Grimké - 1848 - 560 pages
...bars," he says, " a single legislature may make to restrain itself, can never be relatively to itself, any thing more than simple resolutions; as those bars...stop its own motions, must then be within it, and rest upon it, they can be no bars." This is undoubtedly true, if the members hold their seats by hereditary... | |
 | Jean Louis de Lolme - 1853 - 438 pages
...authority. But here we must observe a difference between the legislative and the executive powers. The latter may be confined, and even is the more easily...resolutions : as those bars which it might erect to stop its ownmotions must then be within it, and rest upon it, they can be no bars. In a word, the same kind... | |
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But here we must observe a difference between the legislative and the executive powers. The latter may be confined, and even is the more easily so, when undivided: the legislative, on the contrary, in order to its being restrained, should absolutely be... 
