...hundred and eighty-one, commenting upon a defect of the (then) Constitution of Virginia, said: "All the powers of government, legislative, executive,...alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. An elective despotism was not the government we fought...

...Hamilton, page 385. The quotation is from Madison, who quotes Jefferson's Notes on Virginia, stating: All the powers of government— legislative, executive,...result to the legislative body. The concentrating of these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation...

...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...

...guide him as the official head of a great party in the United States. It is in these words — "All the powers of government, legislative, executive and...alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be...

...JEFFERSON 162-165 (B. Lipscomb-Bergh ed. 1903). [Vol. 51:187] THE WAR POWERS RESOLUTION TESTED He said: "It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be...

...JEFFERSON 162-165 (B. Lipscomb-Bergh ed. 1903). (Vol. 51:187] THE WAR POWERS RESOLUTION TESTED He said : "It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be...

...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...alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. 173 despots would surely be as oppressive as one.' "...

...pp. 162-163 (the writer is surveying what he terms the "capital defects of the constitution") : "All the powers of government, legislative, executive,...alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be...

...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,...alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. 173 despots will surely be as oppressive as one. Thomas...