 A just estimate of that love of power and proneness to abuse it which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power by dividing and distributing...  Chronicle of the conquest of Granada - Page 1682by Washington Irving - 1859Full view - About this book
 | Lewis C. Munn - Autographs - 1853 - 450 pages
...which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of...experiments, ancient and modern, — some of them in our own country, and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If,... | |
 | Flavel Scott Mines - Anglican converts - 1853 - 616 pages
...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 of...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,... | |
 | Joseph Bartlett Burleigh - Parliamentary practice - 1853 - 354 pages
...predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. — The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of...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 - History - 1853 - 594 pages
...Washington, urging on the people of the United States " the necessity of reciprocal checks in the §xerelse of political power, by dividing and distributing it...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,... | |
 | Presidents - 1853 - 514 pages
...which predominates in the humaadlRtrt, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of thisposmon. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - Presidents - 1853 - 466 pages
...the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political pow er, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of thepublick weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern;... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1854 - 588 pages
...which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of...experiments, ancient and modern ; some of them in our own country, and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If,... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1854 - 590 pages
...which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of...others, has been evinced by experiments, ancient and modem ; some of them in our own country, and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary... | |
 | Henry Clay Watson - United States - 1854 - 1012 pages
...which predominate in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of...the guardian of the public weal against invasions of the other, has been evinced by experiments, ancient and modem — some of them in our country, and... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1854 - 616 pages
...which predominate in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of...the guardian of the public weal against invasions of the other, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern—some of them in our country, and... | |
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