...altogether upon this social and economic fragmentation for the defense of individual and minority rights. In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered...divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double security...

...single government; and the usurpations are guarded against by a division of the government into distinct and separate departments. In the compound republic...divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double security...

...officials, so that government is obliged "to control itself" (Federalist #51, para. 4). Madison explains: In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered...divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double security...

...and hierarchical view of the 30 Federalist 51, 261-2 (emphasis added). " Ibid., 265. " Ibid., 264: "In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered...divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each, subdivided among distinct and separate departments." M Federalist 78, 394....

...resist encroachments of the others. . . . Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. . . . [And in] the compound republic of America, the power surrendered...divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double security...

...committed federalists. They were in favour of a territorial division of governmental functions and powers: In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered...divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double security...

...abuse of power, reinforcing the principal safeguard, which is "dependence on the people." He wrote: In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered...divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double security...

...congressional actions; instead, he points to the executive veto and the federal division of power: In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered...divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double security...

...presence of a separation of powers in both governments. As James Madison wrote in Federalist No. 51: "In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered...is first divided between two distinct governments," federal and state, "and then the portion allotted to each, subdivided among distinct and separate departments,"...

...admission of new states. Statehood in Union provides a "double security to the rights of the people" since "in the compound republic of America, the power surrendered...is first divided between two distinct governments (the National and State)," and then "the portion allotted to each is subdivided among distinct and...