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Why does Madison fear “a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department” of government?

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Madison believed that keeping the three branches separated was fundamental to the preservation of liberty. He wrote: "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many... may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."

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