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    The “checks and balances” depend on putting ambitious people in different parts of the government, and giving them competing roles. Then, naturally, excesses get curbed because no one part of the government would want to cede too much of its power to the other.

    It did not forsee a future where the leaders of the other co-equal branches of government would subjugate themselves to the President’s ego.