Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.
This demonstration of power, indifferent to the law, is highly dangerous.
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, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.
I think the Founding Fathers probably knew what they were doing in setting up the government to have a healthy tension between the executive branch and the legislative branch.
The ability to choose who governs us, and the freedom to change laws we do not like, were secured for us in the past by radicals and liberals who took power from unaccountable elites and placed it in the hands of the people.
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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