[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the …

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[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands. ✨ James Madison, John Jay (1847). The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, p.202
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