...but the all-powerful state legislatures, which proved again and again, as Jefferson asserted, that 'one hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.' "* Such were the conditions that brought the Fathers to the consideration of the problem of constitutional...

...but the all-powerful state legislatures, which proved again and again, as Jefferson asserted, that 'one hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.' ni Such were the conditions that brought the Fathers to the consideration of the problem of constitutional...

...constitutions« (Debates V, 345). Auch Jefferson, der große demokratische Führer, habe erklärt, »one hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one . . An elective despotism was not the government we fought for« (Federalist, S. 331). Wilson bezeichnet...

...balances" 1783, said that the concentration of powers in the same department was despotism, and that "one hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one." In advocating the adoption of the national constitution, James Madison well stated the theory of checks...

...concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be rx) alleviation that these powers will be exercised by...seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one. Let those who doubt it turn their eyes on the republic of Venice. As little will it avail us that they...

...vesting of extensive powers in the legislature. "The concentrating these in the same hands," he says, "is precisely the definition of despotic government....not by a single one. One hundred and seventythree [legislative] despots would surely be as oppressive as one. Let those who doubt it turn their eyes...

...but the all-powerful state legislatures, which proved again and again, as Jefferson asserted, that 'one hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.' The revolt of Shays, and the less aggressive but universal discontent against the state governments...

...outlined Ijy Mr. Holcombe, certainly endorses this sorry opinion. It may be summed * Jefferson said that ' one hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.' We ourselves have witnessed during the last three years, in the case of our own ancient Constitution,...

...arc the safest Guardians both of public Good and private rights. . . ." *° Jefferson observed that "[o]ne hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one." ei And in his First Inaugural he commented: All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that...

...they envisioned." * It was probably based upon experiences such as these that Jefferson concluded : "One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one."" So too, Alexander Hamilton out of his experience declared: "The tendency of the legislative authority...