...acquaintance of its 1'ramers with the pages aud doctrines of Baron Montesquieu. It is worded thus: " That the legislative department shall never exercise...legislative and executive powers. or either of them." The inhibition goes to the practical exercise of r г. i V powers conferred by the Constitution, and...

...government of this Commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the-executive and judicial powers, or either of them ; the executive...legislative and executive powers, or either of them : to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men." By the last clause of course they meant...

...Woolsey, 18 How. USR 347. the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or of either of them ; the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or of either of them ; to the end, that it may be a government of laws and not of men."a The same idea,...

...acquaintance of its framers with the pages and doctrines of Baron Montesquieu. It is worded thus: " That the legislative department shall never exercise...legislative and executive powers, or either of them." The inhibition goes to the practical exercise of powers conferred by the constitution, and to be used...

...powers, or either of them • the execntlve shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powerR. or either of them : the Judicial shall never exercise...legislative and executive powers. or either of them : to the end It may he a government of laws and not of men. In order to avoid confusion with the use...

...accurately summed up in the formula contained in various state constitutions of the 1780's, which provided that "the legislative department shall never exercise...legislative and executive powers or either of them.." u In such formulations, an obsession with symmetry took the place of a reasoned analysis of the differing...

...Rights of the Inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: In the government of this Commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the...legislative and executive powers, or either of them: to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men. The Declaration of Rights of the Maryland...

...in separate departments ', whereas the final version of the Constitution went beyond this to declare that the ' legislative department shall never exercise...legislative and executive powers, or either of them, to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men '." Adams was consistent throughout his life...

...departments shall be separate and distinct." The Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 was more emphatic: "The legislative department shall never exercise the...legislative and executive powers, or either of them: to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men." But if practice, not declamation, be the...

...executive and judicial powers, or either of them; the executive shall never exorcise the legislative nnd judicial powers, or either of them; the judicial shall...legislative and executive powers, or either of them; to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men." The pardoning power Is fixed by the...