Branches of Government"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny...it will be proper to investigate the sense in which the preservation of liberty requires that the three great departments of power should be separate and distinct."
-Federalist 47, James Madison |