“Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power…The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.”—James Madison. What does this mean?
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A quote from the Federalist Papers. You risk losing your freedom by allowing too much freedom to degenerate into decadence, immorality, disorder, chaos, sort of like the stuff you see on reality TV. With freedom comes moral responsibility. Supposedly. The second part of the question should be obvious and is less interesting. Essentially, it's not enough to be protected from arbitrary use of power. To be free, you have to exercise your political rights.
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This quote encourages the division of authorities as the point of the separation of commands is to check the contortion of authority. Rather of having all 3 authorities accumulated around just one entity, the authority is classified to develop a system of checks and balances. It also maintains the confined state principle in the same way. Government's power should be defined so as to preclude its violation.
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