Delegation Resource Manual: Month by Month Implementation Guide
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YMCA PA Youth & Government Program
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“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.
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“The great advantage of representatives is, their capacity of discussing public affairs. For
this the people collectively are extremely unfit, which is one of the chief inconveniences of a
democracy.”
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“In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments:
in the former, because they are everything: in the latter, because they are nothing.”
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In a true state of nature, indeed, all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this
equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of laws.”
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Baron de Montesquieu Biography
