your answer to this question on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies
.. But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each
department, the necessary constitutional means, and personal motives, to resist encroachments of the others. The provision for defence must in this, as in all
other cases, be made commensurate (corresponding] to the danger of attack. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. I
James Madison, The Federalist No. 51, 1788
In this passage, James Madison argues for the governing principle known as
