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1161. CENTRALIZATION, Balance of

Power and.—I said to [President Washington] that if the equilibrium of the three great
bodies, Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary,
could be preserved, if the Legislature could
be kept independent, I should never fear the
result of such a government; but that I could
not but be uneasy when I saw that the Executive
had swallowed up the Legislative branch.—
The Anas. Washington ed. ix, 122. Ford ed., i, 204.
(1792)