...founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could...effectually checked and restrained by the others." In a modern democratic state, the chief executive office must be elective. But as heredity, prescription,...

...founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy as that no one could...effectually checked and restrained by the others. * * * [The legislature] ha[s] . . . , in many instances, decided rights which should have been left...

...which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistry, as that no one could transcend their legal limits,...effectually checked and restrained by the others. For this reason that convention which passed the ordinance of government, laid its foundation on this...

...founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could...effectually checked and restrained by the others. 4 From what quarter, then, was the drive toward consolidation likely to originate? Publius minced no...

...we fought for, but one ... in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could...without being effectually checked and restrained by the others."52 Writing a few years later about the federal legislature, Jefferson equated a constitutional...

...founded in free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could...effectually checked and restrained by the others. Why should such a complex mechanism be necessary? It is because government itself was regarded by the...

...strove for a government "in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could...without being effectually checked and restrained by others."4 Thus, the framers regarded the system of separated powers and checks and balances established...

...which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies or magistracies, as that no one could transcend their legal limits,...without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.'6 What he and his colleagues were aiming at was not democracy, popular government, but limited...

...wrote in Notes on Virginia, that the "powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could...effectually checked and restrained by the others." The division of governmental power was critical to the Founders; Jefferson said an "elective despotism...

...principles, but in which the powers of government would be so divided and balanced among several bodies . . . that no one could transcend their legal limits, without...effectually checked and restrained by the others." Thomas Jefferson, "Notes on the State of Virginia," Query 133 (1784), in 1 Founders' Constitution,...