...giving policymakers "the necessary Constitutional means, and personal motives," to resist encroachments. "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected to the Constitutional rights of the place" (Federalist 51, in Hamilton, Madison, and Jay 1961b, 349)....

...legislative branch. He produces these oft-quoted sentences: Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections...

...themselves in those actions. As it was stated in Federalist No. 51, albeit in a different context, "[i]t may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. ... If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels...

...department, the necessary constitutional means, and personal motives, to resist encroachments. . . . of the dead.8 Viewed from genuine abolition ground, by those whose love of justice had to the constitutional rights of the place. (FP 51:349) Rather than countering personal ambition and...

...Constitution, James Madison clearly tied the arrangement to the goal of limiting government power: It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections...

...mixes the powers of the three branches in order to keep them separate. In the famous formula of No. 51, "the interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place," Publius argues, so that the officers of each department have a personal motive to exert their constitutional...

...brachte diesen zentralen Aspekt des amerikanischen Regierungssystems folgendermaßen auf den Punkt: »But the great security against a gradual concentration...connected with the constitutional rights of the place.« 47 Das »Une item veto« sollte vorrangig dazu dienen, Steuervorteile oder Haushaltsausgaben, die einzelne...

...resist encroachments of the others. The provision for defense must in this, as in all other cases, he made commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition...human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, hut the greatest of all reflections...

...wrote in The Federalist, No. 5l that they counted on this ambition to control overreaching branches: Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The...human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections...

...decent and effective democracy in a famous passage from Federalist #51, on the separation of powers: Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The...be a reflection on human nature that such devices are necessary. But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If...