"If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation."

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[I]n the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a constitutional control over the others, the degree of separation which the maxim requires, as essential to a free government, can never in practice be duly maintained.

— James Madison