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Often appears with: tyranny and despotism · tyrannical concentration of power · separation of powers and checks · no complete separation · legislative usurpation · constitutional checks between branches · censorship and the press
Usually: argument (1) · skepticism (1)
In Federalist No. 48, Madison argues that separation must include enough constitutional connection so each department can control the others; mere “parchment barriers” fail against encroachment, especially legislative usurpations.
they may in their nature be legislative, executive, or judiciary, the next and most difficult task is to provide some practical security for each, against the invasion of the others. What this security ought to be, is the great problem to be solved. Will it be sufficient to mark, with precision, the boundaries of these departments, in the constitution of the government, and to trust to these parchment barriers again…