Base your answer on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.
. . . But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department, the necessary constitutional means, and personal motives, to resist encroachments of the· others. The provision for defence must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate [corresponding] to the danger of attack Ambition must be made to counteract ambition

Source: James Madison, The Federalist No. 51, 1788

In this passage, James Madison argues for the governing principle known as

A)
checks and balances

B)
representative government

C)
executive privilege

D)
popular sovereignty

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