When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions m...

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.

quote by Charles de Secondat
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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