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“However, it was best known to the delegates as stated by the French thinker Montesquieu. He pointed out that "When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or the same body of magistry, there can be no liberty; because apprehension may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.”

Christopher Collier, Creating the Constitution: 1787
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Creating the Constitution: 1787 (Drama of American History) Creating the Constitution: 1787 by Christopher Collier
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