...vested in one person or body of men the government is in fact a despotism/' And James Madison declares, "The accumulation of all powers — legislative, executive, and judiciary — in the same hands, whether one, few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the...

...government separate and distinct. In reference to this objection Madison wrote in the "Federalist": "No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic...enlightened patrons of liberty than that on which this objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in...

...value or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty than that on which this objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers,...and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very...

...the danger of being crushed by the disproportionate weight of other parts." He goes on to say that "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands .... may be pronounced the very definition of tyranny"; but he then undertakes an elaborate argument...

...the danger of being crushed by the disproportionate weight of other parts." He goes on to say that "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands .... may be pronounced the very definition of tyranny"; but he then undertakes an elaborate argument...

...question. Few, indeed, of those who still had faith in it would go so far as to say with Madison that " the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive...judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or of many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition...

...political maxim, that the legislative, executive, and judiciary ought to be separate and distinct. . . . No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic...that on which the objection is founded. . . . The oracle who is always consulted and cited on this , subject is the celebrated Montesquieu. If he be...

..." that the three departments of government " ought to be separate and distinct," Madison wrote : " The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive...and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, the few or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed or elected, may justly be pronounced the very...

...maxim, that the legislative, executive, and judicial departments ought to" be separate and distinct. . . No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic...accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judicial, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed,...

...writings of those advocating the adoption of the constitution. In the 45th Federalist, Madison said: "No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic...patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection (viz., that the constitution of 1788 united various sorts of powers in the same person) is founded;...