Asked by Havon

ead the quote by Baron de Montesquieu.

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.

According to the quote,
is lost if one person has too much power.

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Liberty (freedom) — Montesquieu warns that when one person or body holds both legislative and executive power, liberty is lost.