...despotism merely underscored that under the Virginia government, to which his words were directed: "All the powers of government, legislative, executive,...result to the legislative body. The concentrating thrse in the same hands is precisely the definition of dcspouc government." Kramer & Marcuse 905 n.801....

...directed: "All the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judiciary, result to the tentative body. The concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government." Kramer & Marcuse 905 n.801. (Emphasis added.) The power of congressional inquiry is not at all comparable...

...of power to the legislature, coming at the expense of the Governor and die state courts, he called ' precisely the definition of despotic government. It...by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. 173 despots would surely be as oppressive as one.' " Instead of depending on paper barriers in a constitution,...

...skilled in the laws.9 7 Compare the comment of Thomas Jefferson on the Virginia Constitution of 1776: All the powers of government, legislative, executive,...by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. 173 despots will surely be as oppressive as one. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia,...

...benefits which a proper complication of principles is capable of producing." The result is that "All the powers of government. legislative, executive and judiciary, result to the legislative body," thus forming an "elective despotism."'4 The Constitution supplies "a proper complication of principles"...

...Jefferson, who wrote: 'The concentration of these [the executive, legislative and judicial powers] in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic...by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one: 173 despots would surely be as oppressive as one... An elective despotism was not the government we...

...sufficiently separate and distinct. According to the former governor of the Old Dominion, that meant that "all the powers of government, legislative, executive,...is precisely the definition of despotic government. . . . An elective despotism " he concluded "was not the government we fought for" in the American Revolution;...

...the authority of Thomas Jefferson, who in his Notes on the State of Virginia wrote the following: All the powers of government, legislative, executive,...of hands, and not by a single one. One hundred and seventy three despots would surely be as oppressive as one. Let those who doubt it turn their eyes...

...according to Jefferson in theory as well, one office has a way of being more equal than the others: "All the powers of government, legislative, executive,...judiciary, result to the legislative body. . . . The judiciary and executive members were left dependant [sic] on the legislative, for their subsistence...

...Constitution in effect left all three powers of government in the legislative body; he remarked that "concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government," since human beings "soon learn to make interested uses of every right and power which they possess,...