Excerpt from American Constitutions: The Relations of the Three Departments as Adjusted by a Century In considering the Constitutions Of the Revolutionary period, a brief summary of those provisions relating to my subject may be found in Bancroft's United States, Vol. IX., Ch. 15, and in the Federalist, no. 46; the full text Of the instruments themselves may be found in the two volumes entitled Charters and Constitutions, published by the United States Government in 1879. NO words of mine can give their spirit so well as the pointed language of Madison in the Convention Of 1787. He said, Experience proves a tendency in our governments to throw all power into the Legislative vortex. The Executives of the States are little more than ciphers; the Legislatures are omnipotent. If no effectual check be devised on the encroachments of the latter, a revolution will be inevitable. He might have derived some consolation from the fact that the States which had473] American Constitutions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.