...attainment of an end is expected ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained, and (6) the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner that each may be a check on the other. The initial analysis concluded that the form of popular (democratic)...

...branch against branch to achieve good governance: "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition" in a "policy of supplying, by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives." THF FF.DFRAI 1ST No. 51, at 322 (James Madison) (Clinton Rossiter, ed., 1 96 1 ). Aggressive congressional...

...preclude overconcentration of power. This principle is described in The Federalist Papers as follows: This policy of supplying, by opposite and rival interests,...system of human affairs, private 'as well as public. I/ We did not find a system of effective oversight or of checks and balances for Defense Agencies....

...control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precaution. This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests,...system of human affairs, private as well as public... the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner that each may be a check...