Powers Are United Quotes
- When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty. — Baron de Montesquieu
- 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… — Baron de Montesquieu
- In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same… — William Blackstone