Montesquieu — "When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in t…"

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, and execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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The Spirit of the Laws, Book XI, Chapter VI: Of the Constitution of England

Date: 1748

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