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
| George Robertson - Kentucky - 1855 - 422 pages
...necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it in different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal, against invasions of others, has been evinced or experience, ancient and modem." WASIUHOTOS'S KAU.KWELL ADDEJSS*. The... | |
| George Robertson - Kentucky - 1855 - 422 pages
..."OBVIOUSLY and P. i'ABLY" unconstitutional. I PALPLEBIAN. TO THE GOVERNOR ELECT 0V KENTUCKY— No. vnr. "The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing anc distributing it in different depositories, anc constituting each the guardian of the public weal,... | |
| Presidents - 1855 - 512 pages
...guardian of the public weal against invasions of the other, has been evinced by experiments, ar.sient and modern ; some of them in our country, and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people,... | |
| Charles Wentworth Upham - Presidents - 1856 - 406 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...modern ; some of them in our country and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people,... | |
| New Jersey State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1914 - 136 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... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Appellate procedure - 1957 - 1114 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...modern, some of them in our country and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. It seems to me that the decision... | |
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