To form a moderate government, it is necessary to combine the powers, to regulate them, to temper them, to set them in motion; to give, so to speak, a ballast to one, in order to enable it to resist another.
Separation of powers
The Spirit of the Laws, Book V, Chapter 14: Of the Laws in Relation to the Principle of Monarchy
1748
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