Read the following excerpt from the Federalist Papers No. 51 and explain, in your own words, what the author is trying to say. What area of government is it addressing, and how was it put into practice? Use details to support your response.
"In order to lay a due foundation for that separate and distinct exercise of the different powers of government, which to a certain extent is admitted on all hands to be essential to the preservation of liberty, it is evident that each department should have a will of its own; and consequently should be constituted that the members of each should have as little agency as possible in the appointment of the members of the others."
