...powerful branch of government did not become too powerful. As stated in another of the Federalist Papers, "it is against the enterprising ambition of this department,...jealousy and exhaust all their precautions." (The Federalist, No. 48, at 334 (J. Cooke, ed., 1961).) The Framers knew, as Blackstone had observed, that...

...concerns was to ensure that this most powerful Branch of Government did not become too powerful. "[lit is against the enterprising ambition of this department,...their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions." The Federalist No 48, at 334 (J. Cooke ed. , 1961). The Framers knew, as Blackstone had observed, that...

...emergency" take advantage of the people's "incapacity for regular deliberation and concerted measures." But in a representative republic where the executive magistracy...their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions. (48, p. 309) A representative republic is constructed with an eye on the dangers of kings, and thus...

...powers of '.he people. In words which unfortunately have some relevance today, it declares that "(t is against the enterprising ambition of this department that the people ought to indulge their jealousy and i.xhaust all their precautions." And. further, the hesitant people were assured...

...its own strength." Therefore, "it is against the enterprising ambition" of the legislative branch, "that the people ought to indulge all their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions," Madison declares. Federalist No. 49 examines a suggestion by Jefferson that breaches of a constitution...

...ways, masking its encroachments "under complicated and indirect measures."11 Madison concludes that "It is against the enterprising ambition of this department...to indulge all their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions1' . . . The legislative department is everywhere extending its sphere of activity, and...

...ways, masking its encroachments "under complicated and indirect measures."11 Madison concludes that "It is against the enterprising ambition of this department...people ought to indulge all their jealousy and exhaust ail their precautions12 . . . The legislative department is everywhere extending its sphere of activity,...

...branches. It is against the "enterprising ambition" of the legislative department. Madison concludes, "that the people ought to indulge all their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions" (No. 48. 309). The particular danger of legislative supremacy to republicanism is that the legislature...

...branches of the new government had to be protected against legislative usurpations. As Madison put it, "It is against the enterprising ambition of this department...their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions."" Much of the intellectual 3. Max Farrand, ed., The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, 1937 rev....

...extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex." And so, he advised, "it is against the enterprising ambition of this department...to indulge all their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions."18 The veto is a legislative power; it provides the president with one-sixth of the legislative...