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" 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... "
The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Army ... - Page 188
by Aaron Bancroft - 1857
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Eloquence of the United States, Volume 5

1827 - 540 pages
...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...power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositaries, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasion by the others,...
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors

J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 pages
...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...depositories, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal, against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern: some...
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History of the United States: To which is Prefixed a Brief Historical ...

Noah Webster - 1832 - 378 pages
...to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us "Til, . truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the...depositories, and constituting each the guardian of public weal against invasions by others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern : some...
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The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the Armies of the ...

David Ramsay - 1832 - 278 pages
...to abuse it, which predominate in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the...into different depositories, and constituting each tha guardian of the public weal against invasions of the others, Has been evinced by experiments ancient...
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History of the United States: To which is Prefixed a Brief Historical ...

Noah Webster - 1832 - 340 pages
...into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of public weal against invasions by others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern, some of them in our country and ,wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the constitution designates. But let there...
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The Life of George Washington: With Curious Ancedotes, Equally Honourale to ...

Mason Locke Weems - 1833 - 250 pages
...abuse it, which predominates .11 the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks, in the...depositories, and constituting each the guardian of public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experimentsancientandmodern; some...
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The Lives of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson: With a Parallel ...

Stephen Simpson - 1833 - 408 pages
...proneness to abuse it, which predominates in human hearts, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the...into different depositories, and constituting each to be the guardian of the public weal against invasion by the others, has been evinced by experiments...
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Declaration of Independence ... with the Names, Places of Residence, &c. of ...

United States - 1833 - 64 pages
...dividing and distributing it into different depositaries, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced...ancient 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...
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The Congressional Globe

United States. Congress - 1833 - 752 pages
...to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is efficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the...power, by dividing and distributing it into different depusitories, and constituting each the guardian of the liuMic weal against invasion by the others,...
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Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading ..., Volume 1; Volume 8

United States. Congress - 1833 - 748 pages
...any partial or transient benefit which .the use can, ;it any time, yield." Л\ hat is the meaning of the necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against the invasion...
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