Refer to the passage. To limit the concentration of power identified by
Madison in this passage, the framers of the
Constitution
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
defense must in this, as in all other cases, be made
commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition must
be made to counteract ambition.
O included a Bill of Rights outlining specific rights held
by the people.
created a federal system of government with
separate national and state governments.
divided the powers of government among distinct
branches, each with limited oversight over the
others.
denied the national government the right to exercise
any power not explicitly identified in the Constitution.
- James Madison, Federalist, no. 51