La más común y duradera fuente de fraccionamiento ha sido la variada y desigual distribución de la propiedad

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress.

[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.

In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different branches; and to render them by different modes of election, and different principles of action, as little connected with each other as the nature of their common functions, and their common dependence on the society, will admit.