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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 324 |
| AUTHOR: | Edward Gibbon (1737–94) |
| QUOTATION: | The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | EDWARD GIBBON, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chapter 3, third paragraph, p. 33 (1838). |
| SUBJECTS: | Constitution of the United States |
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