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.
-- Charles de Secondat
   
Charles de Secondat   Name:
Charles de Secondat
Type:
Philosopher
Nationality:
French
Birth:
January 18, 1689
Death:
February 10, 1755
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