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— Thomas Jefferson"It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected."
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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.
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