...congressional power. As James Madison put it: -'[I]t is against the enterprising ambition of this [legislative] department that the people ought to indulge all their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions." The Federalist No. 48, at 344 (Wright ed. 1961.) And Alexander Hamilton viewed the veto power us necessary...

...irresistible. * * *.B Madison warned: • * * it is against the enterprising ambition of this [legislative] department that the people ought to indulge all their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions.3* It is clear to us that the one-House veto in the Salary Act does not fall afoul of either...

...everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. ... it is against the enterprising ambition of this department...their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions." By the middle of the 1780s, there was a growing conviction among thoughtful Americans that if their...

...powerful branch of government did not become too powerful. As stated in another of the Federalist Papers, "it is against the enterprising ambition of this department,...their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions." (The Federalist, No. 48, at 334 (J. Cooke, ed., 1961).) The Framers knew, as Blackstone had observed,...

...concerns was to ensure that this most powerful Branch of Government did not become too powerful. "[lit is against the enterprising ambition of this department,...their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions." The Federalist No 48, at 334 (J. Cooke ed. , 1961). The Framers knew, as Blackstone had observed, that...

...representative republic where the executive magistracy is carefully limited, both in the extent and the duration of its power; and where the legislative power...their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions. (48, p. 309) A representative republic is constructed with an eye on the dangers of kings, and thus...

...powers of '.he people. In words which unfortunately have some relevance today, it declares that "(t is against the enterprising ambition of this department that the people ought to indulge their jealousy and i.xhaust all their precautions." And. further, the hesitant people were assured...

...its own strength." Therefore, "it is against the enterprising ambition" of the legislative branch, "that the people ought to indulge all their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions," Madison declares. Federalist No. 49 examines a suggestion by Jefferson that breaches of a constitution...

...ways, masking its encroachments "under complicated and indirect measures."11 Madison concludes that "It is against the enterprising ambition of this department...to indulge all their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions1' . . . The legislative department is everywhere extending its sphere of activity, and...

...ways, masking its encroachments "under complicated and indirect measures."11 Madison concludes that "It is against the enterprising ambition of this department...people ought to indulge all their jealousy and exhaust ail their precautions12 . . . The legislative department is everywhere extending its sphere of activity,...