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| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1817 - 570 pages
...be devised in any government, to secure a steady, upright, and impartial administration of the laws. not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules...direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society ; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither force... | |
| James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1818 - 882 pages
...will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them. The executive not only dispenses the honours, but holds the sword of the community : the legislature not only commands the purse, hut prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated :^the... | |
| Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...to the political rights of the Constitution," of all the departments; that it "dispenses no honours; has no influence over either the sword or the purse;...of the wealth of society; ,and can take no active resolution whatever;" that "though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...citizen are to be regulated. The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the swi rd, or the purse ; no direction either of the strength, or of the wealth of the society ; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither force,... | |
| William Paley - Ethics - 1835 - 324 pages
...this office, and of this alone, is fraught with no danger to the commonwealth. For, " the executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword...either the sword or the purse ; no direction either of 398 Of what must we consider in determining the proper tenure of the judgcship 1 399 What will take... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1837 - 516 pages
...will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them. The executive not only dispenses the honours, but holds the sword of the community : the legislature...direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society ; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE... | |
| Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 686 pages
...the departments; that it "dispenses no honours; has no influence over either the sword or the parse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of society; and can take no active resolution whatever;" that "though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of... | |
| Andrew White Young - Economics - 1839 - 472 pages
...natural weakness of the judiciary. It has been remarked with much apparent truth, that " the executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword...direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society ; neither FORCE nor WILL, but judgment." ยง 100. Permanency in office is indispensable... | |
| Andrew White Young - Economics - 1840 - 348 pages
...natural weakness of the judiciary. It has been remarked with much apparent truth, that " the executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword...: the legislature not only commands the purse, but proscribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated : the judiciary,... | |
| Constitutional history - 1842 - 492 pages
...of the constitution ; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them. The executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword...direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society ; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE... | |
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