....This politician discovers in the Constitution a direct and irresistible tendency to monarchy; that is equally sure it will end in aristocracy.
(Hate to break it to you Mr. Madison, but that politician just may have been correct in his assumption!)
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And here it is FOLKS, THE PROBLEM which was feared to occur, HAS occurred...
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With another class of adversaries to the Constitution the language is that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments are intermixed in such a manner as to contradict all the ideas of regular government and all the requisite precautions in favor of liberty. Whilst this objection circulates in vague and general expressions, there are but a few who lend their sanction to it.
(Well, Mr. Madison, they are no longer so 'vague' or 'general'. It IS PRECISELY what is happening in our Country THIS DAY! All the aforementioned 'deparments' have enjoined themselves together and are perverting and subverting OUR Constitution and Bill of Rights!)
- James Madison, Federalist #38
With another class of adversaries to the Constitution the language is that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments are intermixed in such a manner as to contradict all the ideas of regular government and all the requisite precautions in favor of liberty. Whilst this objection circulates in vague and general expressions, there are but a few who lend their sanction to it.
(Well, Mr. Madison, they are no longer so 'vague' or 'general'. It IS PRECISELY what is happening in our Country THIS DAY! All the aforementioned 'deparments' have enjoined themselves together and are perverting and subverting OUR Constitution and Bill of Rights!)
- James Madison, Federalist #38
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